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Reviewer: MaryESP Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: May 06, 2021 10:18 pm Title: Chapter 3

Lol! Maybe Angela got Josh that interview with Staples. 😅😉😉

Reviewer: Dernhelm Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 20, 2021 06:53 am Title: Chapter 3

Awww, that's a perfect ending for a perfect Christmas story! I was grinning like an idiot reading it, and the reveal of the actual wishmaker made me cheer aloud. That was lovely, thank you so much for writing it!

Reviewer: BigTuna Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 17, 2021 08:42 pm Title: Chapter 3

JB

What

My mind is blown

This is so perfect

You are a genius

Author's Response: BT. Taylor. Friend. 

I can’t even begin to tell you how much this is my least favorite piece of my own writing ever & the only way I could reconcile myself with posting it was by trying to convince myself it was a deliberate choice - that I was leaning into the very lame Christmas movie trope & that’s why the writing was a car crash. Anyways, I appreciate this review very much even though I feel like it has come from a place of the absolute kindest kindness. 

Reviewer: lazyloris Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 15, 2021 07:38 pm Title: Chapter 3

This fic was so warm and fuzzy and everyone was the best versions of themselves! Thank you!

Author's Response: Thanks so much for reading & reviewing! I really appreciate it! 

Reviewer: darjeelingandcoke Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 11:10 pm Title: Chapter 3

Awwww, a cute ending to this one!

I loved the near kiss over the hot cocoa. And also: he chewed a mint for her!

There were a LOT of really great lines in this one - diligently washing her pot not being a euphemism, Dwight's explaining why it wasn't REALLY a kidnapping (and him doing it by tempting him with candy!), full Recyclops. You really shine with Dwight here.

Their "morning after" banter sounded very much like them, easy to visualize.

It was very Pam-like (and happy Pam-like in particular) to let Michael have the win. She's got her guy AND she's feeling like herself again. Three birds with one stone after all!

Angela as the cold-hearted grump who performs a Christmas miracle DOES seem very Hallmark movie. (Except they might have hinted she was a literal angel.) I like to think she TELLS herself it was just because she knows Pam is keeping her secret, but ACTUALLY she just didn't like seeing her unhappy.

Author's Response:

Ooooh. I’m with you on the angel thing. Although, it’s Angela. No one who’s well... Angela is really an angel. That just may be too farfetched even for Hallmark... 

Thank you as always for your lovely, detailed review! 

Reviewer: warrior4 Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 08:07 pm Title: Chapter 3

Really fun way to end this all. Dwight hanging up on Jim fits the bill so very right. However when Pam calls right back and asks the same question his soft spot for her, and wanting to stay in Angela's good graces, shows up.

Micheal's Michealness (including the interrupted kiss) was a ton of fun to read.

Loved envisioning Jim and Pam sneaking off through the rest of the weekend to be together. Coordinating illnesses is just the kind of thing they'd do and it was wonderful.

Investigator Pam was a lot of fun to read too. To think Angela was behind it all was a lot of fun. Deep down there is a woman who does want to be happy and wants other around her to be happy too. It just takes special circumstances and this was more than special enough.

And to end it all with Jim coming back is just the icing on the cake. Or in this case the tinsel on the tree? We'll go with that. Wonderful job. This one was a ton of fun.

Author's Response:

I’m kind of mad I didn’t use “the tinsel on the tree” somewhere. That was a real oversight. 

Thanks as always for reading!  

Reviewer: nicemorningtoo Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 06:48 pm Title: Chapter 3

JB. This was prime hallmark material and I loved every second of it. I truly did not expect Angela to be the mastermind behind all of it, I was sure it was going to be Dwight. I still loveee though that Dwight helped, the Pam and Dwight friendship is one of my faves. But I loved that Angela has this secret gratitude towards Pam for keeping her secret. I also loved the references to episodes that we wouldn't have seen if this had actually happened, like "My heart soars with the Eagle's nest!" and Jim calling Pam to tell her about the merger. All so good.

Author's Response:

Thank you for making “Hallmark material” sound like a compliment! Everything Hallmark is so damn cheesy, but like I’m here for it.  

Reviewer: BlindManCassidy Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 06:18 pm Title: Chapter 3

“‘How do you think I found your half decent Christmas card design?’ Angela’s eyes gleamed with something that was within the realm of humor.”

I’m so glad that Jim and Pam finally got together! And it seems so JAM to me that their first activity together is making hot chocolate for Michael.

And it’s so *Michael* that he would take credit for everything, even when he clearly couldn’t have pulled that off! He has the heart, sure, but not the brains.

Lastly, I think it’s really cute that Angela did all of this just to help Pam and yet she won’t admit that she did something nice, and that it was just the right thing to do - even though she’s clearly trying to be friendly (see quote above). She went above and beyond because she does care about Pam. I mean, she used Dwight to get all of this done! And he never does favors!

Loved this.

BlindManCassidy

Author's Response: Thanks so much! 

It’s nice to hear the ending worked for you! It was ridiculously cheesy, but hey, that’s what Christmas is for... 

Reviewer: WanderingWatchtower Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 06:13 pm Title: Chapter 3

“Somewhere between him spinning them and pressing her flush against the door and her steadily unbuttoning his shirt there was a unanimous decision that he really would like to finish the tour of her apartment, starting with her bedroom. This was agreed upon to be an inspired idea.” When I tell you I laughed...

Jenna, this was absolutely delightful and I loved every second of it. I LOVE that it was Angela. I LOVE how you described the different kind of missing it was for Pam when she and Jim finally figured it out—I’ve been there and you described it perfectly! I’m going to turn around and give this another read through immediately because it had all the best parts of every hallmark movie but better. Great job! :)

Author's Response:

I think that was my favorite line in the chapter so I so appreciate that you pointed it out (& that it made you laugh!) 

Thanks so much for reading & reviewing!  

Reviewer: Maxine Abbott Signed 1 [Report This]
Date: January 14, 2021 05:25 pm Title: Chapter 3

I loved that it was Angela. A Christmas miracle that it was sure but it warmed my heart. She isn’t such a grinch after all. But I do love her line these idiots couldn’t pull off a thing.

Love the whole hot chocolate thing you’ve got going there...with milk of course...even Michael doesn’t drink chocolate water.

Gotta also love the recyclops reference.

Glad to get this holiday fix from you As usual I enjoyed every bit of it.

Author's Response:

Chocolate water is the very sad little brother of milk. No one likes the very sad little brother... 

Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts on this one!  

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