Home for the Holidays
Posted by admin in Kindle Saturday, 4 September 2010 03:53 5 Comments
Product Description
The Forgetful BrideCaitlin Marshall’s trying to go home to Minnesota, but at the last minute she gives her airline ticket to a stranded soldier. So Cait spends Christmas with Joe Rockwell, who was a childhood friend–and is still a terrible tease, claiming that Cait’s his wife. Oh, sure, they were “married” in a pretend ceremony when she was eight, but now Joe wants to make their “marriage” real!When Christmas ComesEmily Springer trades her Leavenworth, Washington, … More >>
This is my first romantic comadey book to read but I wanted to read an x-mas book but all of them are romantic comadeys. I found this book to be pretty good. The book has 2 stories and the first one was ok and the second was good. The first one I found the charactors to be anyoing at first the main girl was to mean and the guy was to kidish. As the story went on i liked the chemistry between the two charactors. The story was good but predictable and it draged on at times. The other story is a mix up holiday story which I found fun. The story was funny but predictable but fun. Overall the book was a good x-mas book but still needs lot of work.
Rating: 3 / 5
First off the Forgetful Bride: In my opinion it was a waste of a good plot and a great male character. Cait was shallow, with no sense of humour and absolutely no imagination. The author should’ve made the hero ditch her so she could have an epiphany and go beg for a second chance.
The second story was better in terms of characters, though I found them all a bit too proper for my tastes. That bit about a College student wanting to sing carols while cutting out paper stars to hang on a palm tree with her biker boyfriend was just too much. After 2 years at Harvard, how sheltered and naive can you be? The whole book was also very platonic. The chemistry was artificial at best. It would’ve been more realistic for the characters to form a historical book club, rather than get married. It felt like the couples were formed out of loneliness and desperation rather than love or even passion.
Rating: 2 / 5
I love Debbie Macomber and her books, but I was disappointed with Home for the Holidays. Unlike most of her books, I didn’t find the characters or the storyline believable. I couldn’t finish either story. I wouldn’t recommend this one, not even at Christmas.
Rating: 1 / 5
The story When Christmas Comes was sort of cute and I think would have made a better full length story to develop the characters. I would love to have learned more about the former relationships that lead the characters to the point where they met.
The Forgetful Bride was TERRIBLE. The female protagonist was horribly written. There was nothing in Cait that was lovable. I can’t believe how bad this story was. In fact, it made me irritated to the point that it was hard for me to finish and I very nearly just threw the book away. This story could have been so much more. The male protagonist (Joe) was adorable but could have been better developed…and it is possible to flesh out a character, even in a short story. There was NO hope for the character of Cait though.
I got the feeling The Forgetful Bride was an “I have to get this story done because I have a deadline so I won’t give it any more thought than I have to” story.
All in all, this was a colossal waste of time and money. Don’t bother buying it if you are a Debbie Macomber fan. It is NOT her best work by any stretch of the imagination. The 2 stars I gave were solely for the When Christmas Comes story.
Rating: 2 / 5
This Read has 2 Delightful Stories. If you’re reading these. “The Forgetful Bride” and “When Christmas Comes” you’ll be laughing tell your sides hurt.
Rating: 5 / 5