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jbarr5's review against another edition
4.0
An old woman remembers her years at Christmas when the maid brings in the play box with all the children's toys in them. She sets out to do an experiment by putting out a toy on the curb to see who will take it. She puts out several toys that are taken til she comes to the angel. She puts that on her mantel and it comes to life, the angle tells th eowmn to sit back and watch what happened to the toys she had placed out on the curb. Shelearned the fate of each one.
leahegood's review against another edition
3.0
Miss Terry has the Christmas spirit all figured out. The way she sees it, it doesn't exist. She proves her point by leaving some old toys by the curb and watching people fight over, steal, and destroy her rejected items. However, her proof isn't quite as foolproof as she thought. During the night, her Christmas angel comes to life and shows her what happened with the items after she stopped watching.
This was a cute little story my mom found online. It's written in the typical straight forward, rather dry tone of most classic stories. We had fun listening to it, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a story to put them in the mood for Christmas.
This was a cute little story my mom found online. It's written in the typical straight forward, rather dry tone of most classic stories. We had fun listening to it, and I'd definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a story to put them in the mood for Christmas.
thebookkeepers's review against another edition
2.0
I think this genre is a hard one for me to be in love with. I think the story was ok & enjoyed some parts, but overall had to push myself to keep reading it. I found some parts surprising and others were very predictable. I did like a lot of the character development tho.
nell163's review against another edition
2.0
The book was good at the beginning but for me the ending was a little off!!
raaahella's review against another edition
Very lovely book. A little twist, with a little more heart on the Christmas Carol tale.
iphigenie72's review against another edition
5.0
I am an undying fan of "A Christmas Carol", but I was looking for a Christmas story that I had never read. I really loved this maybe the ending is a little too sugary and denotes an innocence that we have lost in our modern world still I truly enjoyed reading "The Christmas Angel". I saw some links with the Dickens' story, it is also about someone who doesn't believe in Christmas maybe not for the same reasons, but in the beginning Angelina Terry is as bitter as Ebenezer Scrooge ever was. The story is this: Old Miss Terry (and what was old in 1910?) has decided to burn all her old toys, but instead of doing that she decides to make an experiment by dropping them on the sidewalk. Their stories retold through the Christmas Angel is what brings the changes in Miss Terry. I cried, probably had a lot to do with the innocence of the story... It's just nice reading something that doesn't have a complex web connected to it. I'm guessing I stumbled by pure luck on a classic... and if it is not, it ought to be. Just enjoy!
thew's review against another edition
3.0
A sweet little book with a nice Dickensian A Christmas Carol message.
ashleysbooknook's review against another edition
4.0
I listened to this on Audible because it was free. It started out a little slower, but I really enjoyed it in the end. It's a bit of a twist on The Christmas Carol. A woman doesn't really believe in the Christmas spirit and tests strangers to see if they will be kind of selfish. She believes she is seeing selfishness over and over again, but then we see the real story once we get the inside details, shown to us (and the woman) by the Christmas Angel who seemingly comes to life and takes the woman on a journey similar to the one Scrooge goes on with the ghosts. I liked the ending, which involved reunions and new friends and answers, as well as a change of heart for the woman, who begins to feel the spirit of Christmas after all. I would read (or listen to) this one again in future years.
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