Magical and heartwarming Christmas story

Lily's writing was fantastic as always. The characters were well written, and I enjoyed the lightheartedness of the story. Accompanied by the spectacular narration Joel Leslie always provides, this book is sweet and absolutely delightful!

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Warms the Heart

Another fantastic book from Lily Morton, her usual humour and snark and full of love. Not to mention mystical creatures that lurk in the woods. Brilliant.

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On a midnight clear

I loved this when it was released as a book and love it just as much on audible. 🥰

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MM Christmas Magic

Lord Barnaby, brassic but with a large estate with plenty of land, would he be pressured into selling off some of the land to save his family home?

As Christmas approaches, Barnaby has some big decisions to make, but then he has a visit, and then one of his statues comes to life.

It is brilliantly written as normal, full of laughter and a great story.

The characters have depth, and so does the story, which is all helped along by an outstanding narration by Joel Leslie, but I did speed up the narration to 1.20 on audible.
Well worth a listen. I would highly recommend it.

On a Midnight Clear
By: Lily Morton
Narrated by: Joel Leslie
Length: 6 hrs and 52 mins

❤❤❤❤❤ Overall
🎧🎧🎧🎧🎧 Narration
📚📚📚📚📚 Story
Read at 1.20 speed on Audible

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Lovely Christmas Story

This is a lovely Christmas fairytale. I loved the characters and the storyline, it makes you feel good and ready for Christmas and, as always, Joel Leslie was great.

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A lovely Christmas tale

This story left me warm and happy. Love the way Cosmo says Barnaby’s name, lovely jubbly xx

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A sweet magical Christmas story

3.5 Stars

On a Midnight Clear was a mixed bag for me, there were parts I really enjoyed and others I struggled with. The narrator plays a big role in my enjoyment of a book, I've listened to a lot of audiobooks narrated by Joel Leslie and some I have loved and others not so much, this one was a not so much and I think I would have enjoyed the story more if I had read it rather than listened to it because I didn't get on with how he narrated the characters.

That being said, the story was sweet and full of magic. I enjoyed the mythology behind the story and liked the idea that the statues come alive every night for an hour and get to mingle with each other.

Cosmo was very sweet and enthusiastic about everything around him which was what Barnaby needed, a little magic in his life and a new way of looking at things. I wish I had Cosmo's ability to use magic to fix everything and help people's moods. Barnaby was a little sad to begin with, especially how isolated he was from the villagers and how they behaved towards him because they thought he was rich and didn't care about the village, being he'd lived there all his life I was surprised he didn't have more friends and had no one to share his problems with within the community. But at least through magic, he had his beloved statue come to life and change his world.

A no angst, sweet Christmas novella with a happy ever after.

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A bit too sugary and easy solutions

When I read this it wasn't one of my favorite stories of Lily's, so why ask for a copy of the audiobook? Well I'm a weird creature and sometimes things that annoyed me when I read something, after time passed and listened to the same story I found that I quite liked it. 80% is due to the magic that is a narrator's talent to give life and depth to a character (certainly more than I can with how I read sometimes) and 20% is the mood I'm currently in.

This time though, no matter how much I enjoyed Joel Leslie's narration, how he brought forth Cosmo's love of life, Barnaby's affection to indulge Cosmo anything, and how even their chemistry was a bit more obvious, the magic that this story should be just wasn't there again or at times it was just too much. Just too easy and too sugary sweet.

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Good

Good Christmas fable, with a happy ending. Well read by Joel Leslie. Will listen again.

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A lovely Festive Tale

This is a lovely festive tale which I thoroughly enjoyed reading last year and was top of my books of the year. I have been eagerly awaiting the audio book for my car journeys. It is still a lovely tale with a good performance by Joel Leslie albeit using the same upper class English voice that I thought Barnaby was Dylan and I’ve had to train my mind to switch this off. I love this author who writes British books full of British wit, sarcasm and humour but why do we have to have Americanisms from the mouths of British characters? All in all though, still one of my favourite books.

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