Deck the Halles by Stephanie Dagg

 Deck the Halles

by

Stephanie Dagg

Today I am excited to be part of the blog tour for this seasonal treat from Stephanie Dagg. 

Thank you to Rachel's Random Resources for inviting me to take part. I hope you enjoy my review. 

Book Description

It’s next Christmas at the little French llama farm.

Last Christmas infamous Australian author Nick bought the farm, that was meant to be furnished and without llamas. The reverse proved to be the case. Noelle had been sent to pet sit the llamas until his arrival. After a decidedly frosty start, Nick and Noelle’s relationship warmed up rapidly and they’re now happily living together, with an ever growing assortment of animals.

They’re looking forward to a quiet, romantic Christmas together but at the last moment Noelle is called on to find a venue for the annual national llama show. The local agricultural halles are free so she books them, thinking that’s all she’ll have to do to help. She couldn’t be more wrong! On top of that, various relatives start turning up on her doorstep unexpectedly, as the result of assorted crises. The farmhouse is about to burst at the seams. Add in a few other events, such as playing the part of a pixie at a Christmas fête, organising Nick’s book launch and training a non-cooperative llama for the agility class in the show, and Noelle is pushed ever closer to the end of her tether. Can she hold it together and stay as calm as a llama? Or will she be the next member of her family to make a bolt for pastures new?

This festive, feel-good and fun novel is the sequel to ‘Fa-La-Llama-La: Christmas at the Little French Llama Farm’ but can be read as a standalone.

My review

This is brilliant, quirky and fun read and I loved it from start to finish. This is a sequel to Fa-La-Llama-La although it can be read as a standalone read. 

Nick and Noelle are living in France after having bought a house the year before. They have made lots of plans for their Christmas together just them but it seems everyone else has other plans for them. This is also without having to plan the annual Llama Show after the job was given to Noelle to plan after a disaster struck the planned venue,  Little does she realise just how much she is going to be involved with it. With deciding to enter into the Llama show Noelle is desperately trying to sort out two of the Llamas to enter into the competition in two different classes, A fancy dress class, and a agility class, this proved to be difficult especially with a Llama that doesn't like having anything on its back! 

There are many supporting characters in this book that all add little something, however the main focus of this book is Noelle and all of the Llama drama that she is experiencing. There are plenty of laugh out loud moments as you read through the book but you do also feel for Noelle at times. 

this is a fun and quirky festive read that will surprise you especially with the information on Llamas! I feel I know so much more about Llamas now especially about the shows as I didn't even know they existed! 

This is the second book I have read by Stephanie Dagg and I am looking forward to seeing what adventures she writes about next. 

Purchase Links

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About the Author

I'm an English expat living in France, having moved here with my family in 2006 after fourteen years as an expat in Ireland. I now consider myself a European rather than 'belonging' to any particular country. The last ten years have been interesting, to put it mildly. Taking on seventy-five acres with three lakes, two hovels and one cathedral-sized barn, not to mention an ever increasing menagerie, makes for exciting times. The current array of animals includes alpacas, llamas, huarizos (alpaca- llama crossbreds, unintended in our case and all of them thanks to one very determined alpaca male), sheep, goats, pigs, ducks, geese, chickens and turkeys, not forgetting our pets of dogs, cats, zebra finches, budgies , canaries, lovebirds and Chinese quail. Before we came to France all we had was a dog and two chickens, so it's been a steep learning curve. I recount these experiences in my book Heads Above Water: Staying Afloat in France and the sequel to that, Total Immersion: Ten Years in France. I also blog regularly at www.bloginfrance.com.

I'm married to Chris and we have three bilingual TCKs (third culture kids) who are resilient and resourceful and generally wonderful.

I'm a traditionally-published author of many children's books, and am now self-publishing too. I have worked part-time as a freelance editor for thirty years after starting out as a desk editor for Hodder

& Stoughton. Find me at www.editing.zone. The rest of the time I'm running carp fishing lakes with Chris and inevitably cleaning up some or other animal's poop.

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