Review: Wonderful holiday romance
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2013
This time of year I really enjoy reading small town Christmas stories, they are so festive and the people are happy and having fun. This short novella is no exception as we visit Hollow Bend, Kentucky where the town is only too happy to accommodate a stranger with car trouble and no place to stay.Andrew Bateman is working for his cousin as a sales rep for a veterinary supply company. Not only is he lousy at his job but he hates it. To make matters worse, it starts to snow while driving through town and when he brakes a little too fast he ends up crashing into the local tavern.Billie and her friend Katie are just about to walk into the bar when a vehicle crashes into it, being a veterinary tech, she runs to see if she can help the driver. Andrew looks up and calls her his Angel of Death as he is not sure if he is alive or dead, then passes out. He is not really hurt but they let him spend the night in the hospital because he has no place to stay and in the morning he gets a car to use – small town America at its finest.He makes a sales call to the local veterinarian in the morning and finds his angel. Billie lets him stay at her place where she shows him the joy of Christmas through her family and friends, making him realize what he has been missing and what he does not want to live without.Kentucky Christmas is a short novella that takes off where Kentucky Home (the author’s debut novel) ends. I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting the small town and the people that live there. Billie, the veterinary tech is very quirky and engaging; she likes to have fun in life but tries to tone it down a bit because she does not want to be like her mother. Billie is best friends with her father and I love their relationship, a true partnership in their business and small family that includes a menagerie of animals. The town is generous to a fault, Andrew is from New York and is not used to being treated so nice, they give him a car to drive, a place to stay and treat him like one of the family. I like Andrew, he is interesting but oh so negative, in the beginning he hates his job, his family and his current life, I like that Billie is able to help him see things differently, and it is good to see him grow. The two together are believable but fell for each other very fast, but that is to be expected in such a short story.The story is sweet and full of holiday spirit and laughter, as Billie and Andrew enjoy her friends and family. I like this series and look forward to spending more time is this entertaining Kentucky town.Copy from author for an honest review