this is a nice book. 
it’s a mixture of memoir, maybe even a bit self-help(ish) and do it yourself handbook rolled into on. 

i don’t think that combination will work for everyone - the first section is very much focused on Hewitt working through her grief, remembering her mother and taking about that part of her life; where as the rest of the book is more of a “how to” typ of book from generating ideas for parties or little daily moments to recipes and back to how to plan parities. 


it does work in some way since from the very first mention Hewitt talks about how her mother used “magic” in ways to make life special and how she would make a day special with little things and Hewitt more or less shares those ideas on how to make a day more special or magic in this book. 

as i said - i don’t think necessarily a book that will work for everyone but for me personally it was mostly well done. 
it was a bit of a strange mixture and felt a little jumpy in parts (sometimes repeat what was already said before, because she would jump from telling a story before her third child was born or how they found out she was pregnant to when he was born only to go back to a story before she knew she was pregnant or just found out… a bit more rearranging to make that a consistent timeline without the back and forth might have been nice but as it is it works too… or the jump from sharing her life into how to being this “magic” into the readers own life) 


if you are not somebody that believes small things can make a big impact, this book isn’t for you!
 
if you don’t believe in holiday magic - be it christmas time and what can be magical about an during that time or any other time of the year? not the book for you. 


if you want an in depth memoir of this actress? nope, not it.


but if you want a book that shares a woman and her way through losing a very important person, how she found a way to connect that loss with the love for her mother into her life after her mothers passing and trying? go for it.