About the Book:
Yuletide Homecoming by Linda Goodnight
Five years ago, Rafe Westfield broke his fiancée's heart when he left to join the military. Now the battle-scarred soldier is back in Snowglobe. Amy Caldwell tries to keep her distance, but the holidays, family and a sweet stray dog keep bringing her and Rafe together…maybe this time, forever.
A Family's Christmas Wish by Lissa Manley
Abandoned by her husband when she was eight months pregnant, single mother Sara Kincaid vowed to rely only on herself. But then she makes a deal with handsome widowed father Owen Larsen to provide babysitting services in exchange for his carpentry work on her inn. Can two pint-size matchmakers help them see beyond the past in time for Christmas?
My Comments:
Two short Christmas novellas set in a small Montana town. Two heroines who were abandoned by their fathers and by their first loves. Two women who learn that trusting God means trusting the men He sent into their lives. No, the men aren't perfect either. Rafe was the one who left Amy all those years ago, and now he hopes to win her back. Owen's wife died, and he doesn't want to risk that hurt again.
These stories are very sweet and heartwarming. They are also very religious. The characters pray, go to church, and think about God's will for their lives. Of course the characters are chaste, but they manage a bit of steam too. All in all, an enjoyable way to spend an afternoon, but nothing outside a pretty formula romance.
I'd like to thank the publisher for making a review copy available via NetGalley. Grade: B.
Oo oo oo - Christmas stories! I will be doing all Christmas reading in Dec.
ReplyDeleteReally pretty cover on this one.