katkinney's review against another edition
4.0
This was a cute collection of short stories featuring different couples. My favorites were the first, where a cop finds a young boy nearly frozen in the snow and decides to take him (and the puppy yapping adorably nearby) in. This definitely wins major points in the adorable fluffy white dog category (SO CUTE), and the foster care story itself was great. In terms of having a holiday theme we’re at one gingerbread man, but I still found this an engaging story on its own. I also really loved the last story, where a bush pilot in Alaska is flying a woman across the tundra when they’re forced to make an emergency landing (again, with the cute Samoyed puppy in tow) and make shelter for the night. This is sort of an opposites attract situation, and the chemistry was cute!
annarella's review against another edition
4.0
Lovely and heartwarming, these are the perfect books for Christmas time.
I loved each of them and I will surely look for other books by this author.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC
I loved each of them and I will surely look for other books by this author.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC
annarella's review
4.0
Lovely and heartwarming, these are the perfect books for Christmas time.
I loved each of them and I will surely look for other books by this author.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC
I loved each of them and I will surely look for other books by this author.
Recommended!
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC
prationality's review
Yanno what?
DNF
I don't know if it was the fact the first two stories played pretty fast and loose with the law, or of the child abuse of the first story was compounded by a woman in a wheelchair being attacked by her step brother...
Actually it was that the blurb mentions that Amelia is in a wheelchair at all. Before you raise a hue and cry shes not in it because she has a disability, she's in it because of an injury. A distinction the blurb doesn't make but that our "hero" Harley is overjoyed about (not that he knows why it makes him feel relieved).
I'll tell ya why Harley - because the author didn't want to ACTUALLY write about a heroine in a wheelchair having a romance.
Add in the fact there's soooo many instances of the cops in this town happily disregarding proper procedure...
And I'll be honest Gerda bothered me A LOT. You're telling me she couldn't be BOTHERED to look deeply into John's easy to find out history beyond a few police reports?
Though Jesus mother and Joseph - did no one check the ex-wive's boyfriend's ID when they booked him? Did no one know what John - who apparently lived in what seemed to be a small town - looked like? Did the ever so helpful neighbor lady think to TELL THE POLICE what they were seeing?
Basically this book did the opposite of warming my heart.
DNF
I don't know if it was the fact the first two stories played pretty fast and loose with the law, or of the child abuse of the first story was compounded by a woman in a wheelchair being attacked by her step brother...
Actually it was that the blurb mentions that Amelia is in a wheelchair at all. Before you raise a hue and cry shes not in it because she has a disability, she's in it because of an injury. A distinction the blurb doesn't make but that our "hero" Harley is overjoyed about (not that he knows why it makes him feel relieved).
I'll tell ya why Harley - because the author didn't want to ACTUALLY write about a heroine in a wheelchair having a romance.
Add in the fact there's soooo many instances of the cops in this town happily disregarding proper procedure...
And I'll be honest Gerda bothered me A LOT. You're telling me she couldn't be BOTHERED to look deeply into John's easy to find out history beyond a few police reports?
Though Jesus mother and Joseph - did no one check the ex-wive's boyfriend's ID when they booked him? Did no one know what John - who apparently lived in what seemed to be a small town - looked like? Did the ever so helpful neighbor lady think to TELL THE POLICE what they were seeing?
Basically this book did the opposite of warming my heart.
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