Review: Reads Like a Hallmark Christmas Book.. A Sweet Read for a winter afternoon.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 7, 2013
Originally Reviewed for the Blog Bodice Rippers, Femme Fatales and Fantasy[...]It's a book about.. well lots of things but to me it was about making your own choices and becoming who you are. Two people with horrid childhoods but took different paths in adulthood. One who honestly and completely believed.. and one, well he didn't.Hannah Woods had a horrible childhood. Abandoned on the church steps as an infant and grew up in a series of foster homes, some good, some not so good. But she never stopped believing that there was more out there. Never gave up the dream. Maybe she stopped believing that she was going to get the dream but she never stopped believing that others could have it. Focusing her life on becoming a woman who would be there for all those lost children, Hannah became a social worker. And when one day she turned around and found an infant, the child of one of her cases, abandoned on the church steps, Hannah knew this child was going to have a chance. After all baby Emily had some family left, her uncle.Jackson Pierce had shut himself off from the world. After he finally cut his drug addict sister out of his life, he changed his name and began again. With his college room mate at his side, he climbed to the top and now 10 years later had a succesful, thriving busine. He has a handle on his world but he still doesn't do Christmas well. Consequently he runs every year at Christmas. Hides in his cabin in the woods and waits it out. So when a woman shows up on his doorstep Christmas cookies and baby in hand he is a bit thrown for a loop.This was a sweet Christmas read. Sort of like a Hallmark Christmas book. Two strangers stranded in a blizzard (in a well appointed cabin) are forced to deal with each other. For Jackson finding out that the baby is his niece made for some very serious soul searching. Most of it was facing his past and remembering that there was good in it as well as bad. Remembering what he had shut out. But Hannah had her share of epiphanies as well. Realizing she too had been refusing to face parts of her past came as something of a surprise.This was not some deep, dark and brooding story, nope it was a sweet, fast, tearjerker. A most definite made for Christmas read and that's ok because it tells a wonderfully sweet story and shoot why shouldn't you take the time to read and enjoy? To indulge in a sweet romance? I don't see why not. While I wouldn't give it a rounding 5plus star rating. I do give it a definite thumbs up. Take your afternoon off and indulge.ShauniThis review is based on the ARC of The Billionaire's Christmas Baby, provided by netgalley.