Their Christmas Family Miracle by Caroline Anderson

Their Christmas Family Miracle Reviews

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  StMargarets

  This was a great Christmas story and a terrible romance. I hated the heroine. I mean I HATED her. She is the most self-absorbed, self-pitying, cut her own nose to spite her face character I’ve had the sad misfortune to come across in a long time. She has three children whom she puts in * physical * peril because of her pride. When her fed up sister asks her to leave her house after Christmas, the heroine gets her back up and leaves at that very moment, knowing she has nowhere to go, with no money and it’s too cold to sleep in the car. This fool has an *infant * she is willing to expose to the elements because her feelings are hurt.
  
  Her kids are traumatized by all the moves she’s put them through. Both the son and the daughter show signs of emotional and physical neglect – the worst thing is that they are worried about their mother because she’s trained them that everything is about *her * and not them as she drags them from pillar to post. Luckily, she likes the family dog and makes sure the kids have that little bit of stability and unconditional love in their love-starved lives.
  
  So why is this a great Christmas story? Because there are pages and pages devoted to these three great kids and how the hero bonds with them when he finds them staying at his house after he returns home early after suffering from a skiing accident. (The hero’s PA, a friend of the h’s, let them in to the house thinking it would help out the hero to have someone house-sitting during the three weeks he’s supposed to be away.)
  
  Oh, how I loved the h’s little boy. He’s eight and quiet and worried and you can just feel the burden of staying strong for his impulsive mother rolling off of his shoulders when the hero stepped in. I loved the scene where the carolers stopped by the house and he got the chance to sing the solo he had been practicing for months before the heroine pulled him out of school because she was too proud to get government help after her ex skipped the country and she lost her job and house all in a short period. That the hero sang, too, was just lovely.
  
  The hero has a sad backstory (his wife and son were killed two days before Christmas five years before.) And the heroine was so *cruel * to him when she felt he was raising her little boy’s hopes to high. To be fair she didn’t know his backstory – but it would have been a mean thing to say to anyone. (Get your own son and leave mine alone) I honestly could not see what he saw in her.
  
  For the final idiocy – the heroine does accept a job from the hero after giving him all kinds of grief about if the job was right for *her* – but she won’t accept help with housing. Her kids end up in a dump in the bad part of town for months because she was too proud. She also turns down the H's marriage proposal because he is in the same line of business that her ex was. He has no answer to this, so he leaves her alone - accepting yet another loss. (Did I mention I hated her?)
  
  Of course, it all works out when the dog had a stroke and the heroine ask her PA friend to watch the kids while she takes him to the vet. The hero shows up with the PA and goes with the heroine to have the dog treated. She finally admits her feelings. HEA
  
  I’m leaving out a lot of great Christmas food descriptions, the snowman, the kids’ delight in their gifts and the hero’s uncomplicated, generous company. I know the hero fell in love with this family, but I doubt he fell for the witchy heroine (Who made her kids eat eggs that first night when she could have fed them something nice from the hero’s freezer – at his insistence - because she had to prove her independence to the hero.) Did I mention I HATED her? Who the hell deprives their children of a nice meal to prove a point?
  
  So English major math: the hero's love for the kids and their love for him - five stars.
  Plus the H/h romance - one star.
  That's six stars.
  Divide by two.
  Three stars.
  
  *curtsies*
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  Megan

  Intensely Christmas-y, in a way that most Christmas-is-the-hook Harlequins fail to achieve--so I enjoyed it on that account, especially, and also I cried a bunch, but the state of the world and my emotional management is requiring that I subsist on a reading diet of mostly romance novels at the moment, so take that into account. Dog spoilers: The dog has a stroke near the end of the book, but he recovers and is the attendant at the wedding at the book's denouement, so.
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  Kay

  In Caroline's Dear Reader letter, she says "I cried buckets writing this, so a word of warning—if you’re a softy, put on your waterproof mascara!" And indeed by page 38, I was choked up and wiping tears from my eyes. I quickly found myself emotionally involved in Amelia and Jake's lives. This one will be read again and again!
  
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  Gemma

  A heartwarming read. I got tears in my eyes more than once while reading it.
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  Carley

  In need of a little Christmas fluff
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  Srinidhi.R Srinidhi.R

  love the front picture..also the book..
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  Michaela

  The ending was really rushed. Also who gets married after roughly 6months of knowing a person?? If the time frame hadnt been so stupid i would have liked this book more.
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  Evelyn

  A lovely story. I enjoyed the Christmas celebration part of the story.
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  Loucy

  Chouette petite romance de noël. L'histoire est prévisible mais les personnages sont attachants. J'ai passé un bon moment.