Review: Depressed About Summer's End?  Read This Book!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 09 5, 2012
Kyle Miller writes best-selling books for kids, but he's anything but a jovial old elf.  In fact, with painful Christmas memories, looming book deadlines and writer's block impeding his every move, he's becoming more and more like Scrooge.  Lexi Anderson, his new neighbor and television's "new" Martha Stewart, couldn't be more different.  Settling in her new house with her two children after a painful divorce, Lexi is determined to make her family's Christmas bright.  Her yard is soon alive with decorations and her home smells of the warm scents of cinnamon and gingerbread.  But though she puts on a happy front, Lexi's still nursing a broken heart.  When she meets her grouchy neighbor in the middle of his destruction of her snowman, she assumes the worst and dreads knowing that he'll be living next to her, even though she and her kids are avid fans of his books.  Can these two opposites find a common bond in the pain they share and find a way to healing and love together?Depressed by summer's end, I picked up this short novella while waiting for the arrival of my next book from Amazon and I'm so glad that I did!  Short and sweet and full of reminders of the wonderful season that lies ahead, it lifted my heart and left me feeling all warm and toasty inside.  Though the plot isn't that complicated and there isn't much depth to the story, it's still a worthwhile read for the happy feeling it'll leave in your heart and the reminder of how important family is to our lives.  (And its adorable cover just has to make you smile!)