Review: Super fun, light holiday read.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 2, 2011
bodyI picked this book up as a Amazon freebie.  Now is the time to read all the holiday feel good stuff, so I thought it would be a nice change of pace.  This was a super fun, light holiday read.  The story was "A Christmas Carol" revisited.  Daphne dies back during Vietnam. She feels she has died to early so she bargains with an angel to be sent back.  The Angel Council agrees and send her to help Nat become a better person.  The trick is that he sends her to the future, ie. Present day.  She ends up helping the son of the man who she saved when she died.  As expected, Daphne falls in love with Nat and vice versa all the while he is changing his perception of things as they look at his past and future.  These scenes come through differing electronics, like a TV, a PC monitor, a copy machine plate...the author did a good job of incorporating the "The Christmas Carol" from a modern day point of view.  Nat was very damaged goods. As a child, his father ignored him and he learned better not to feel than to be hurt.  As young adult, he found that the woman he proposed to didn't really love him for him, but for his money...so from that he learned that women and men use each other, nothing more. Like the original "Scrooge", he thought money was the most important thing. Not family, not friends and not Christmas.  He yearly fired people on his staff at Christmas time, boy he was a downer before.  As they looked back on different parts of his life, he started to realize that he was seeing things differently than he did previously, thus changing him.  Daphne was changing him.  But Daphne's job was only temporary, she was expected to move into a new body and continue her life, with no recollection of Nat.  Us readers already know what will happen, but it was nice reading it anyways.  Just a nice feel good book. It was a little shorter than the books I am used to reading, but I felt that it was well paced and if felt like I got the full story.  On a side note, I must say the way the author spells Nat is odd to me...I'm assuming its pronounced like Nate, sine the guys name is Nathaniel.  LOL, it's really a small thing to nitpick, but the spelling ran across my mind more than a few times.