Reviewer: Brenda Casto…
Gaby Summerhill’s family hasn’t been together for Christmas since her husband Peter died, but that’s about to change. You see Gaby has been proposed to by three men, and the thing is she is going to have a Christmas wedding, and she isn’t going to to disclose who the groom will be until the wedding.So the only way her children, Emily, Claire Lizzie and Seth will know who she is marrying is to come home for Christmas.
I loved getting to know Gaby’s children. Each of them were dealing with their own issues making this an interesting story. One was having marital troubles, one had a husband fighting cancer, another is a very successful lawyer who is married but puts in way to much time at her job, and finally one is trying to get a book published. Each child’s story would have made for an interesting book in itself but roll them together and it made the plot of this book move along nonstop. I loved the plan Gaby came up with to get her children home, an idea that was totally new, hooking me, making me wonder myself who she would marry. There was even a twist thrown in that actually surprised me.
Overall if you enjoy family stories where the family seems as real as a your next door neighbors, and want to feel a bit of the magic of the holiday season then your going to want to pick this book up. Normally when I think of James Patterson I think of action packed thrillers, but he can certainly pull of a nice Christmas time family story as well. Highly recommended!
*A complimentary copy of this book was provided in exchange for an honest review.*
Reviewer: Mary C. Cameron “free-lance writer”
After this past year, I am more firmly convinced that James Patterson is actually dead,and someone with greed but no taste decided his last few cookie-cutter collaborations did not deserve a decent burial along with the ‘ghost writer,’Patterson.”The Christmas Wedding” is, by far, the worst desecration. We are expected to believe that three men will stand at an altar, and have the bride choose one of them in front of a roomful of people! These men obviously don’t share a pair between them! Our heroine, Gaby, is a shallow creature who deserves to be sucker punched by as many guests as possible as she walks down the aisle. If I write anymore, I’ll give something away, and I wouldn’t want to do that to any lost soul who does not think life is too short to waste on this yuletide suffering (I mean offering)! In closing, here’s my holiday wish for you, fellow reader… save your hard-earned money, and treat yourself to a peppermint latte and a bag of Christmas cookies!
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