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Once Upon a Christmas Carol

By: Karen Schaler
Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Ryan Paevey, full cast
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Summary

Celebrate the magic and music of the season with this scripted holiday romance by Emmy Award-winning writer Karen Schaler!

Rachel Rinehart’s Christmas season is on the brink of disaster when her record label suddenly drops her, threatening to end her music career. Then she receives a mysterious Christmas card, and everything starts to change....

Inside the card are lyrics to a classic Christmas carol urging her to return home to Crystal Falls, the snowy mountain town she left behind 15 years ago.

Once she arrives in Crystal Falls, a stroke of fate brings her face-to-face with her first love, Matt Meyers, who’s now a devoted single dad. Rachel continues to receive mysterious cards filled with Christmas carol lyrics and clues she must follow—all leading her back to Matt. Is it the work of a hometown matchmaker, or could it be Christmas magic? And will the music and majesty of the season help Rachel discover where she truly belongs?

Now available in Dolby Atmos on Audible.

©2022 Karen Schaler (P)2022 Audible Originals
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  • Categories: Romance

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Good story, poorly executed 

The story was good, but the acting was wooden, the sound effects were a joke, and the audio quality was absolutely terrible, even when listening in enhanced audible format!

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Cute Christmas Short

This was such a cute little story to give you a burst of Christmas spirit 🎄

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Old fashioned but sweet

I didn't love the radio play approach at first. It seemed schlocky, and the acting in the first couple scene was over the top, but it got progressively better, and I grew used to the format. Overall, it's a nice story.

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Lovely Christmas story

I enjoyed this audiobook. Made me feel a bit more Christmassy. I loved the music too.

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I loved the music to this book. we injoyed it better than the story unfortunately. we listened to the music over and over again, until we designed to download the the music to my phone to keep.

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Christmas feel good is a winner

The story was nice and I even liked the different voices and noises-usually not my favourite audiobooks but it was all a bit rushed and kept on the surface. No time for real passion, love or even Christmas. It deserved to become a full story with ups and downs and full finale. Still liked the idea and the characters very much and for me Christmas is always a winner.

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Loved the full cast experience.

Second-chance romance featuring a famous shero and a widower hero, complete with music and a cozy Christmas card mystery.

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A cosy Christmas feeling

I enjoyed listening to this story, and the cast made the story come alive, and I could "see" it play out as a film while listening. Loved it! ❤️

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Lovely Christmas story

I really enjoyed this, the cast where all great and made the story come to life.
Was like watching a Christmas movie.

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Audible playback stops every few seconds

The story stops every few seconds so unable to listen to it property. The problem starts from around scene 7. I tried reporting it via audible chat - uninstalled and re-downloaded stuff a few times, not an issue with my device. kept seeing the broken egg when trying to rejoin the chat so I've given up. I hope someone from audible sees this and looks in into the stop/start issue. Feel sorry for the author and cast. This poor review is for the playback issue only

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