Review: A Wish Come True!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2013
I loved Regnery's debut, "By Proxy," so I scooped this novella up on her name alone, but, to be honest, I was feeling a bit Scroogy at the time. You know how it is...you look at the calendar and, holy smokes, it's November! Christmas is around the corner, and there's so much to do, and you're not ready, and how the heck did it get to be holiday season already! My enthusiasm was at a low mark, to say the least. I started this story with the intention of kind of forcing myself into the Christmas spirit.Well, it worked. Big time. In the best, sweetest, most heartwarming, feel-good way! Tess and Lucas are both overcoming difficult pasts. They're a little beat down by their present circumstances. They're not glamorous, and they're not perfect. But they are perfect for each other. I rooted for them from word one and looked forward to watching them wrestle with their insecurities and learn to trust and love. Because trust and love are the most important gifts they can give to each other--and that's a nice piece of perspective to get no matter what month of the year.Sometimes good things do come in small packages. Regnery delivers a novella packed with all the emotion of a full-length novel, without the time commitment. It's like she knew I was going to be schlepping to the grocery store, and the post office, and Toys R Us, and feeling too overwhelmed to indulge in 90K words worth of "me time" over the holidays."The Christmas Wish" was a wish come true!