Review: It doesn't have to be the Holidays to enjoy this sweet story.
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 08 18, 2013
I had just finished reading a pretty intense story, so I just needed a short and sweet feel good read, and I got that in Eight Christmas Eves. It really is a precious story of a couple that meet for the first time when Cyrus is 18 and Helen is 10. She has lost her parents and her legal guardian. She is involved in a car accident on her way to her new guardians home, when Cyrus drives up on the accident scene and cares for Helen until the ambulance arrives. Once Cyrus makes it to his home for Christmas Eve, he is surprised to learn that his reclusive, wealthy Father is Helen's new guardian. He is concerned that his Father can't provide a nurturing environment for a young girl, as he knew from first hand experience that he is aloof and reserved from his own childhood. Cyrus goes out his way to make a special Holiday for Helen; which is the start of each account of the next 7 Christmas Eves in their relationship. Each year we experience the different ages/phases of their relationship and how they always come back to the traditions they started on that first Christmas Eve. I would have even love to see what happened on the 9th Christmas Eve, but all in all the ending was really a sweet one.