Barbara A. reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 9 more book reviews
it is good reading for the holidays
Robin M. (robinmy) -
Four original Christmas stories in one book.
Gloria R. (Psyche) reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 145 more book reviews
4 super stories.
Brittany (BrittElla) - , reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on
Four Christmas historical romances
Eve M. reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 194 more book reviews
Timeless stories of love and joy from four of histocal romancer's most popular authors. 1. Rendezvous by Elaine Barbieri--Two displaced sotherners come to realize that Christmas wil never be right again until they are together forever. 2. Thw wolf and the lamb by Kathleen Eagle---As Christma season approaches, a spinster, her two stepdaughters and an Indian scout discover they whave become a family. 3. Christmas int eh Valley by Margaret Moore Married to a Welsh miner, Kitty Maude dowsn't realize what it means to be mnarried until the Charistmas she decides to leave home. 4. Keeping Christmas by Patricia Gardener Evens-- An itinerat seamstrress brings the spirit of Christmas into the lives of a crusty rancer and two abandoined childrem.
Gwen B. (daylily) reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 52 more book reviews
very good love stories
Debbie M. (debm) reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 18 more book reviews
Very enjoyable. Loved every story.
jjares reviewed Mistletoe Marriages: Rendezvous / The Wolf and the Lamb / Christmas in the Valley / Keeping Christmas on + 3262 more book reviews
This looked like a great way to try out some new authors. Keep in mind that some authors can move with ease between short stories and full novels, while others can't.
Rendezvous (Elaine Barbieri) I was particularly interested in reading this short tale because I've been seeing this author's name so much. Although the author clearly dated the piece in Wyoming Territory during 1871, I had to check back two or three times to make sure. Jayne seemed very modern (groping a man, etc.). Some of the behaviors of the other characters seemed too modern for the time.
This is an interesting plot that went fizzle. A young woman (Cricket) has been searching (for a year) for a childhood friend and almost dies in a blizzard. When Cricket finds Whittaker, he is engaged to be married. Cricket and Whittaker are transplanted Georgians (after the Civil War).
This story was the weakest of the bunch; readers know what is going to happen all along the road.
The Wolf and the Lamb (Kathleen Eagle) This is a treasure. Most books about Christmas beat the reader over the head with the season, traditions and the message. This was extremely subtle ... and most enjoyable. I loved this story.
Emily Lambert, 30-ish, is on her way to meet the stranger she has married by proxy. Wolf, a Metis Indian, helps her find the farm when no one comes for her at the stagecoach station.
What Emily finds there shatters her dreams; with no real choice, she starts on an odyssey.
Christmas in the Valley (Margaret Moore) The most beautiful woman in the valley (Kitty Maude) marries a Welsh miner (Gareth Williams) on one condition: He must give up the mine work.
It is a year after their marriage and Gareth still works in the dangerous mines. Kitty Maude tells Gareth that she is leaving him. Just as the train arrives, there is a blast from the mine -- men are left down below.
This is a tension-filled story; but it is unbelievable that a woman would be allowed to go into the mine and dig for her husband.
Keeping Christmas (Patricia Gardner Evans) This is the second winner in the bunch. A seamstress, Karin, who travels from farm-to-farm, sewing clothes for families that need her skills, arrives at a farm with a hostile rancher and two children from the Orphan Train. This is a beautifully-told story.
Rendezvous (Elaine Barbieri) I was particularly interested in reading this short tale because I've been seeing this author's name so much. Although the author clearly dated the piece in Wyoming Territory during 1871, I had to check back two or three times to make sure. Jayne seemed very modern (groping a man, etc.). Some of the behaviors of the other characters seemed too modern for the time.
This is an interesting plot that went fizzle. A young woman (Cricket) has been searching (for a year) for a childhood friend and almost dies in a blizzard. When Cricket finds Whittaker, he is engaged to be married. Cricket and Whittaker are transplanted Georgians (after the Civil War).
This story was the weakest of the bunch; readers know what is going to happen all along the road.
The Wolf and the Lamb (Kathleen Eagle) This is a treasure. Most books about Christmas beat the reader over the head with the season, traditions and the message. This was extremely subtle ... and most enjoyable. I loved this story.
Emily Lambert, 30-ish, is on her way to meet the stranger she has married by proxy. Wolf, a Metis Indian, helps her find the farm when no one comes for her at the stagecoach station.
What Emily finds there shatters her dreams; with no real choice, she starts on an odyssey.
Christmas in the Valley (Margaret Moore) The most beautiful woman in the valley (Kitty Maude) marries a Welsh miner (Gareth Williams) on one condition: He must give up the mine work.
It is a year after their marriage and Gareth still works in the dangerous mines. Kitty Maude tells Gareth that she is leaving him. Just as the train arrives, there is a blast from the mine -- men are left down below.
This is a tension-filled story; but it is unbelievable that a woman would be allowed to go into the mine and dig for her husband.
Keeping Christmas (Patricia Gardner Evans) This is the second winner in the bunch. A seamstress, Karin, who travels from farm-to-farm, sewing clothes for families that need her skills, arrives at a farm with a hostile rancher and two children from the Orphan Train. This is a beautifully-told story.
