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iskanderjonesiv's review
3.0
*From the author of The Winter Duchess comes another Christmas tale of love and redemption that will delight and enchant this holiday season... *
A broken-hearted widow…
Known as “Mad Lady Bea” by the townspeople of Blooming Glen, Lady Beatrice Tumbley has not left her estate since the tragic death of her husband on Christmas Eve. Terrified of the outside world she lives in complete seclusion, determined never to fall in love again. Until one cold, snowy night a stranger comes knocking at her door…
A dangerous rogue…
One look at Jack Emerson and Beatrice knows the handsome rogue is nothing but trouble. But she can’t turn him away – not when he’s bleeding from a bullet wound and barely conscious. Against her better judgment she decides to help him, and he promptly repays the favor…by kissing her!
A second chance at love…
As Christmas nears, Beatrice’s frozen heart finally begins to thaw…but Jack has no intention of competing with a ghost. If Beatrice cannot find a way to let go of her past, she risks ruining her future…and losing her true love all over again.
- The Christmas Widow is a novella of approximately 25k words. *
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myworldtoread's review
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
lucyhargrave's review
3.0
I want that dress. It is so pretty that I don’t even care that I have absolutely no where to wear it. I could dance around the house and pretend I was a princess from the olden days... Anyway enough with my insanity and on with the actual review for The Christmas Widow by Jillian Eaton.
I liked this book. It was a light, easy, quick read that I finished within a day. Bea or Lady Beatric Tumbley at the start of the book is still clearly grief-stricken over the unexpected death of her husband Jeffrey. Arguably it has sent her a little insane as she now doesn’t leave the house, closes all the curtains for the whole winter period and just generally appears to have stopped living.
After his abrupt passing she clung to her grief as one might a child, using it to anchor herself to the memories of a man she would never see again... Memories of their life together, so perfect and blissful, until one snowy night when everything was torn asunder.
When the hero enters, a Mr. Jack Emerson, he immediately starts to shake up our young closed-off widow’s ordered existence...
chocklad's review
2.0