Review of A Soldier for Christmas

Title: A Solider for Christmas

Author: Jillian Hart

Series:   The Mckaslin Clan/ Love inspired

Chapters: 16

Genre: Christian Romance

Rating:  4 ½ stars

     A solider for Christmas by Jillian Hart is another book in her McKaslin Clan series. It’s one of the books that is technically not about a Mckaslin. Kelly Logan has given up on love and her dreams of a family. She just wants to finish school at twenty-four she has be working her way through college to become a social worker.

     Mitch Dalton a Marine home on leave walks into the bookstore Kelly works at trying to find a birthday gift his mom. Mitch and Kelly went to high school together, but they really weren’t friends. Mitch asks Kelly for help finding his mother a birthday present, and ends up starting a friendship even though he’s leaving on a deployment. The two strike email correspondence why he’s deployed. The two start falling in love with each other. Kelly doesn’t want to admit her feelings to Mitch or even to her-self for fear of getting hurt.

 Will Mitch break down the walls that Kelly has around her heart? Will Kelly let herself dream again? A Solider for Christmas doesn’t really focus too much on Christmas the book goes from the summer through Christmas Eve when Mitch gets leave again.


 I really enjoyed reading the book, but I was a little confused by the title saying solider when the book says that Mitch is a Marine. I guess I am only hung up on that phrase, because I was raised in a military family and notice things like this. It's still a great read especially if you have read the other  McKaslin Clan books. 


The Book has been released from Love Inspired with another of Jillian's books Holiday Homecoming.  Another McKaslin Clan book this month. 

Title: The Cowboy’s Holiday Blessings

Author: Brenda Minton

Series: Love Inspired Cooper Creek   

Chapters: 16 plus epilogue

Pages:215

Genre: Christian Romance

Rating: 5 stars

     The Cowboy’s blessings is the first book in the Cooper creek series about the Cooper family. I first discovered Brenda Minton’s books when I read Jenna’s Cowboy Hero and discovered a whole “cowboy” series after which I was hooked. I love reading about cowboys.

     Jackson Cooper is a reformed bad boy who has finally come to the Cooper ranch. He’s given up riding bulls to train horses and run his own ranch. It seems his mom’s and grandmother’s prayers are seeing fruit.

     Madeline Patton is a school teacher who wants to put down roots in the small town. That is if she can keep her past from catching up with her. Madeline knows that she is not Jackson’s type, but she can’t help falling for him.

     When a teenage girl shows up on his doorstep, Jackson turns to Madeline for help with Jade. A 33 year old bachelor he has no clue of what to do with a teenage. Even though he sure he’s not Jade father he takes her in so that’s she not alone at Christmas. The only thing that Jade wants for Christmas is a family of her own.

     Will Jackson admit that he loves Madeline? Will Madeline see that Jackson truly has changed and really does love her? Will Jade get a family in time for Christmas?

     I first discovered Jackson’s Character in The Cowboy’s Sweetheart where he was still the town’s bad boy, and again in The Cowboy’s Family. In The Cowboy’s Homecoming you see Jackson start to change. Brenda Minton’s “cowboy” series is a series in the since that the books have the same characters. You don’t have to read the books in order, but it helps since you don’t find out how other books end by reading newer books first. 

Review of Christmas Gifts

 

Title: Christmas Gifts

Author: Gail Gaymer Martin/ Brenda Minton

Small Town Christmas/ Her Christmas Cowboy

Title: Small Town Christmas

Author: Gail Gaymer Martin

Series:   Love inspired

Chapters: 11

Genre: Christian Romance

Rating: 4 ½   stars

     Holly and Ivy Russet are 7 years old twins who begin acting up in class in order to get attention from their father. They feel that getting punished for their bad behavior is better than no attention at all. The only thing that the girls want for Christmas is a mom. They try to fix their dad up with their teacher.

     Amy has come to the small town where she spent her summers to like with her grandma after losing her teaching job in Chicago. She has had, had a crush Mike Russet she was 19. Will the twins get what they want for Christmas? Will Amy have a reason to say in the small town? Will Mike take a chance at love again?

Title: Her Christmas Cowboy

Author: Brenda Minton

Series:   Love inspired

Chapters: 9

Genre: Christian Romance

Rating: 5 stars

     Elizabeth Harden is in Oklahoma to be at a charity event that her father’s company is sponsoring. After being jilted by her fiancé days before she was supposed to marry; she wants nothing to do with any man. Especially a heartbreaker like Travis Cooper.

     When she’s is snowed in more like iced in she ends staying with the Cooper’s and she ends up discovering that there’s more to Travis than meets the eye. Travis never considered himself the marrying kind till he met Elizabeth. Will he be able to convince Elizabeth to take a chance on him? Can Travis be Elizabeth’s Christmas cowboy?  

Review of Christmas Belles of Georgia

Title: Christmas Belles of Georgia

Authors: Jeanie Smith Cash, Rose Allen McCauley, Jeri Odell, Debra Ullrick

Series:   Romancing America

Pages: 350

Genre: Christmas, Christian romance

Rating:  5 stars

            There are four stories in one. Christmas Belles of Georgia is the story of four quadruplets who were born on Christmas and later adopted by four different families. While the overall story is how the girls cope with learning that they are adopted and have sisters; each sister gets her story and a chance to find love.

Title: Christmas in Dixie

Author: Jeannie Cash Smith

Chapters: 8

     Holly is living in Missouri about to start a career as an author when she learns that she is adopted. She goes to Georgia to meet the lawyer and ends up in the Hospital, where she meets Grayson, the doctor who treats her while she’s in the hospital. Will Holly come to terms with her adoption and find love?

Title: Nick’s Christmas Carol

Author: Rose Allen McCauley

Chapters: 15

            Carol is a history major at an Alanta college when she discovers that she has three sisters. She heads to the small town where she was born to find anwers. Instead she finds Nick a guy from her past. Who at the time she treated badly. Will she and Nick get a second chance for love?

Title: Starry Night

Author: Jeri O’Dell

Chapters: 8

            Starr is the hardest of the quad’s to get to come to Georgia she doesn’t respond to the letters that she is sent. So Camden agrees to fly to California to convince the free spirit to come to Georgia for her birthday and Christmas. Will Starr see that love is right in front of her. Will the free spirit choice the southern Gentleman.

Title: Loving Stetson

Author: Debra Ullrick

Chapters: 10

     Noelle is a cowgirl through and through and cannot image living any where other that her family’s ranch. Noelle has loved Stetson for as long as she can remember but he keeps pushing her away. When the letter comes that she is adopted she already knew that, but when she learns that she has siblings she begins to wonder why anyone would put their children up for adoption. Stetson admits his feelings for her, but when she learns about a secret from his past she pushes him away because she doesn’t know how to handle it. Will Noelle sort out her feelings? Do her and Stetson have a chance?

     I enjoy all four short stories but my favorite was Loving Stetson because I have a thing for cowboys. Growing up I always wanted to be a cowgirl. So cowboy and cowgirl stories have a special place in my heart.