Two Christmas Stories: one historical, one contemporary
According to Goodreads:
An Appalachian Christmas: A promise to her dying sister compels Julia Mayfield to take her young nephew to Mistletoe, Kentucky, a tiny town tucked away in the Appalachian Mountains. Sparks fly when she meets David Armstrong, a World War II veteran like herself. Even as shadows from the past weave a dangerous web around Julia and David, will their love flourish like the mistletoe that blankets the nearby hills…..
The Appalachian Christmas by Irene Bland takes us back in time. I must be honest. It took me a minute to get into the story but once I did, I couldn’t put it down! It took some time to warm up to Julia in the beginning. I couldn’t quite grasp why she was s eager to pawn off her nephew. However, as the story unfolded, she came to love that child like her own. What a Christmas miracle this little boy had!! His father, who was supposedly dead, shows up in church! I couldn’t help but shed a few tears! Oh, how happy this man was to find out he was a father!! This story is what Christmas is all about.
According to Goodreads:
Once Upon a Christmas Eve: Hollie Goodnight's store has just been voted best Christmas shop in America. All the new publicity draws flamboyant novelist Van Keaton to the cozy town of Noel, Missouri, demanding to write Hollie's story--a dramatic tale of misfortune and triumph. She is swept up in his world of beautiful words and fanciful interludes until Owen Quigly, her lifelong best friend, launches a plan to win her back
Once Upon a Christmas Eve, by Anita Higman is a story about the present. I can honestly say that I felt bad for Holly Goodnight in this story. I can understand why so many people wanted to know her story considering how her mother left her on the doorstep of the Christmas shop she works at one Christmas Eve. I think when Holly finally decided to talk about that night so long ago and her feelings, some doors closed for her. She was able to forgive her mother. What an amazing man Mr. Goodnight was to adopt this little bundle of joy and raise her to be an extraordinary young woman! It amazes me that after years and years of friendship, Holly and Owen realize that they love each other. Isn’t that how is always works?!
I rate this book 5/5
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