I read a review for this book last year and I'd been looking for it ever since... Ta da! I found it! It was a very good story and I'm glad that it finally made its way into my hands. This was a great Christmas story... and, while it is March, I could still get myself into the mindset of the season... without any of the stress! Bonus.
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As for this month's challenge, Carrie Alexander is another NTM author bringing my total to 4 NTM harlequin imprints / lines and now, 24 authors. My totals are 34 books for the month, so far, 26 of which are harlequin imprints and 8 that are "other".
I'm not, however, doing well this month with the ratio of books from my TBR to new acquisitions: I've read only 4, maybe 5, books that have been languishing in my TBR as opposed to 30 (or 29) recent acquisitions. Ah well... the price of looking for NTM authors, I guess! LOL
RATING:
Excellence: Great to Very Good ~ 3.0 stars
Steaminess: Romantic to Sensual
BOOK READ:
Carrie Alexander; A Town Called Christmas; HSR #1455; Nov 2007
FROM the BACK:
It's Christmas, and Navy pilot Michael Kavanaugh is home from deployment ~ with a "Dear John" letter in his pocket. In spite of a rather seriouls case of Bah-Humbug, Mike heads to Christmas, Michigan, to spend the holidays with the York family. But then he meets Merry York, and spending Christmas in Christmas doesn't seem such a bad idea after all....
That is, until Mike discovers Merry has a present she's been hiding ~ she's five month pregnant! As attracted to Merry as he is, Mike isn't prepared to be a father and husband after only seven days.
But in a town called Christmas, almost anything can happen....
MY NOTES:
For the first part of the story it seemed to me that things were moving too fast, but as it progressed I realized that, yes there was a lot going on between Mike and Merry, but part of it was due to the overwhelming attraction that they both felt and the short amount of time... but Carrie Alexander worked the emotions and situations very well. The characters, especially Merry and Mike, were well-defined and people that I could related to. It was nice, too, that their story didn't take place in a vacuum, but what was happening to the other members of the York family tied in very nicely. I really enjoyed the progression of the relationships, and the latter part of the story, where Mike and Merry really got to know one another was beautiful.
Books read in March: 34
Har / Sil ~ 26
Others ~ 8
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kalyko ~ Reading: One of life's little joys and a much needed reward!
