Knit the Season - Kate Jacobs

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Title: Knit the Season
Author: Kate Jacobs
Genre: Chick-lit
Rating: 3.5/5
# pages: 260
Date read: December, 2010

Not only are the holidays are just around the corner, the women who knit at Manhattan's Walker & Daughter have an extra reason to celebrate: there's a wedding planned for New Year's Day. In the meantime, college-age Dakota Walker is working to finish a sweater her mother started before Dakota was born. As she takes on her mother's pattern, she learns from her family and friends that there was much more history in these stitches than she had anticipated, and that to build on her mother's legacy, Dakota must allow herself to become the woman she truly desires to be.

Definitely the weakest of the lot, but it's a sweet Christmas story (starting just before Thanksgiving and ending just after New Years Eve) and a quick read, so perfect for a lazy Christmas Day morning.

It's linked quite closely to "Knit Two" and ties up a lot of the loose ends from that book. Some elements were a tad too good to be true, but "it's Christmas", and I can completely understand wanting an extra doze of 'feel good' for that.

"Knit the Season" is mostly about Anita, Peri, Catherine and Dakota, with the rest of the Knitting Club being pretty much just periphery characters. I've always liked those four best anyway, but I did feel the lack of the other characters was a bit too glaringly obvious, but it's also bar far the shortest of the lot, so I guess there just wasn't any room for more plot.

And it did leave me feeling very Christmasy, which is always the main point of a Christmas read :)