What a great combination of a Christmas story and a Florida story from
author Dan Walsh. Dan's books always keep me turning the pages, want to get to
the end yet hating for the book to end, also.
Dan always researches his locations thoroughly and now Mount Dora is on my
list as a place I want to visit. Especially near Christmas time if it is as he
described. Snow and hills in Florida is something I've never experienced, well a
little snow years ago that melted instantly, but it wasn't at Christmas.
The empty nest pulls on our heartstrings and a mother with no children home
at Christmas is one of the worst case scenarios possible for most moms. Life
happens and sometimes it's not as we hoped for or dreamed about. What can
Judith's husband who obviously isn't taking the empty nest as hard as she is, do
to bring back the joy to his wife's life? Dan gets into the head of a woman very
well and also shows us how a man's brain works, as Stan does his best to "fix"
his wife's situation.
I could feel the depression moving in to Judith's soul and longed for her
husband to wake up and see what she needed from him. We do find the classic Dan
Walsh happy ending that we've come to expect from him; I wouldn't have it any
other way, in fact. The added touches for life in the "meantime" were very
believable in a small town such as Mount Dora. I loved the "Christmas snob" addition to the middle of the story and what it
took to change that in a man.
I could picture this as a Hallmark holiday movie quite easily.
Baker Publishing Group Revell's division has a wonderful author in Dan
Walsh. He never disappoints. Keep writing, Dan!
I received this book free of charge from Revell Reads in exchange for my
honest review
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