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text 2019-11-28 07:58
How the world will benefit from my book Mrs. Claus and the School for Santas
Mrs. Claus and the School for Santas - Timothy Stewart

I don’t know if “the world will benefit”, but I did want to show the diversity in one common belief.  Though not everyone is visited by Santa Claus, a lot of people have heard or have seen a version of him as designated by ones individual culture.  “Santa Claus” is everywhere in one form or another during the holiday season and to a young person’s point of view this might raise some questions.

 

Source: www.timothystewartbooks.com
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review 2018-12-12 16:13
SEASON'S READINGS Santa's On His Way anthology

 

 
 
Santa's on His WaySanta's On His Way anthology
By Lisa Jackson, Maisey Yates, Stacy Finz, Nicole Helm

What the Cowboy Wants for Christmas: Maisey YatesMeg, Charlie, and Noah all met as teens living in the same foster home. Meg fell instantly in love with Charlie for the last thirteen years she's waited for him, waited to be old enough, waited for him to get a good job, waited for him to come home from New York but this year she decided to stop waiting especially after finding him in bed with another woman. Noah has been a constant in Meg's life and has been in love with her for just as long and finally this year is the year he has his chance to finally show Meg how he feels.

Overall, it was a really nice and steamy read with lots of emotion. Meg looks back on her life and sees things differently than she use too and once she gets all that figured out everything falls into place.

Snowed In: Stacy Finz
My favorite of the book! I absolutely love Glory Junction. As soon as I read in the last Glory Junction book the animosity between Rachel and Boden I knew this was going to be great. Rachel Johnson left her big city corporate lawyer job to pursue her dream of being a baker. Now she owns a fantastic bakery and is looking to expand and she knows just the place. Boden Farmer turned the tired old bar into a gastro pub and he has plans to expand himself but in the meantime he's working the bar for parties which brings him in close proximity to Rachel. They are both prepping for the Christmas Day wedding when they get snowed in. With no distractions standing in their way they finally drop their walls low enough to let each other in but their is still the matter that they both want the same location for their business.

Overall, I loved this one. It's a quick and easy read with funny situations and loveable characters. Rachel has been burned once before so she's hesitant to let anyone else in it takes a grand gesture from Boden to show her he's worth the risk. 

A Cowboy Wedding for Christmas: Nicole Helm
Lindsay Tyler dreamed of leaving her hometown behind and she did she left after high school and vowed never to come back. Cal Barton thought he was enough for Lindsay, that she would stay for him and when she left town she broke his heart. After six years of living life on her own Lindsay is homesick she's had her time to grow up and discover who she really is and that person belongs with her family. When her brother gets engaged and she comes home for the wedding she's staying home for good. Now she just has to make it through the wedding at Cal's Christmas Tree Ranch without falling back in love with him.

Overall, this was a nice emotional read about how sometimes to need to be apart and discover who you are away from the comforts of home to really appreciate the place where you belong. 

A Baby For Christmas: Lisa Jackson
1995 Annie McFarlane is newly divorced when her husband's girlfriend ends up pregnant. After discovering she may never be able to conceive and then her husband leaving Annie was having a horrible year. 1996 Liam O'Shaughnessy needs to find the real killer of his boss before he gets convicted of murder his only lead is the woman who claimed she saw him there but she's disappeared but he's found her sister. Annie found solace in a small house in the middle of nowhere looking after an older couple ranch. Her plan was to stay a few more days before going to visit her brother and his family but late one night she discovers a baby on her front step with a note "For you Annie". The next night Liam shows up at her door claiming the baby is his and demands to know where her sister, the baby's mother, is but Annie has no idea and with a blizzard blowing in they are stuck together to work it out.
 
Overall, this one fell short. I love Lisa Jackson's older stuff and this feels like it's only half a book. It feels like there is so much missing from this story. I love the idea of it and the plot and if there is a full version of this story out there I want to read it but this as is is lacking.   

 
 

 

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text 2017-11-11 17:14
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review 2017-09-25 02:17
The Usual Santas: A Collection of Soho Crime Christmas Capers - Stuart Neville,Mick Herron,Helene Tursten,Peter Lovesey,Cara Black

I love anthologies like this. When your schedule is crazy & you find it difficult to make any progress on a full-meal book, these provide the perfect snack. Here we have 18 stories with an interesting theme. All are set around the Xmas season. But that’s about all they have in common as the authors took the brief & ran with it.

 

Some are funny, some are gritty. Settings include different centuries & locales such as Seoul, Bangkok, Ireland, America & Cuba. And genres run the gamut from psychological to full on action. There are even a few names you’ll recognize such as Jane Austen & Sherlock Holmes.

 

Like most collections some are great, most are good & a couple are meh. But what falls into those categories will vary from reader to reader. My favourites were those by Helene Tursten (do NOT mess with a Swedish granny), Teresa Dovalpage (great characters, set in Cuba), Tod Goldberg (poignant tale of a lonely sheriff’s final days on the job) & Martin Limón (American military police in 1970’s Korea). Two of these authors I’d never read before & therein lies the gift. It’s great chance to try out new (to you) authors & editor Peter Lovesey has included each writer’s back list at the end so you can easily select something meatier by whoever catches your fancy.

 

It’s a great book to take on your daily commute or leave on the bedside table. Just keep it handy for those times when you have a few minutes to escape to another time or country.

 

        

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review 2013-06-13 00:00
The Five Santas (The Oncoming Storm)
The Five Santas - Jay Mims The Five Santas by Jay Mims

4 Stars

Dan Landis is a private detective who works as security in a store over the Christmas period. When he accidentally finds a ‘street collector Santa’ dead behind a dumpster he soon turns bodyguard for the Santa in the store he works for. It isn’t long before more Santa’s turn up dead, and with the help of a reluctant elf, Dan tries to solve the mystery of the Santa killer!

I totally didn’t know what to expect when I picked up this book … in June!…and I found the whole thing unpredictable while I read. It was a quirky little story with an MC that had a very dry and sarcastic sense of humour….Some of the author must be in there because no way could he write those one liners without having that kind of humour himself.

Dan was a likable character, he had an ease about him that was comfortable and made him attractive to me as the reader. I really wanted to see more between him an Abbey, I can’t seem to fully engage in any story that doesn’t have a romance thrown in……..I know I’m such a girl! There are going to be more books in the series, maybe it’s going to be one of those ‘will they, won’t they’ kind of drama’s that keeps us wondering right to the last book when finally they get together properly or walk away from each other for good…….who knows!!

Regardless of the ‘Santa’ theme this is predominantly a mystery/suspense/thriller with a PI who has a strong enough personality to carry a series for a number of books, providing the humour and one-liners stay fresh. Only time will tell if Jay Mims can keep it up, this could be a series to watch if this is your genre of choice.

I don't like the cover though, it doesn't stand out and doesn't scream 'read me'.

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