I wanted something light to read this week because I had some procedures coming up and I didn't want to get caught up in something deep or heavy. This seemed to fit the bill--at least on the surface.
A Christmas Do-Over chronicles the reformation of a "Mean-Girl" and the pathway back to the good graces of those she's hurt along the way is long and humbling.
Dashing Through the Snow made absolutely no sense to me. Willow's boyfriend dumps her right before the wedding, but insists she take the honeymoon trip anyway, a two week train trip with various stops and excursions along the way. So far, so good. She develops a friendship with Clarence, the elderly owner of the train, and his son, Oliver. Her friendship with Oliver grows into something more, but this is where it makes no sense. At one point he says that the train was purchased when he was a child in 1953. This makes Oliver at least forty years older than Willow. I won't say love can't happen to two people with such a time span between them, but it is unlikely.
The best one of the novellas is A Perfectly Splendid Christmas by Amy Clipston. Amy is most well known for her Amish fiction, but she is coming into her own as a modern Christian romance writer. Kacey and Drew reconnect years after high school when Kacey comes back to Splendid Lake to help her sister out when her husband lost his job. Their relationship begins again as an easy flowing friendship that grows and develops into something more.
This is a four star book only because Amy Clipston's offering brings the average up.
Thomas Nelson provided the copy I read for this review. All opinions expressed are solely my own.
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