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Book Review-I’ll Be Home For Christmas by Lori Wilde

by | Oct 28, 2015 | Book Reviews | 8 comments

Book Review-I'll Be Home For Christmas by Lori Wilde

Book Review-I’ll Be Home For Christmas by Lori WildeI'll Be Home for Christmas by Lori Wilde
Series: Twilight,
Published by Avon on October 27th 2015
Genres: Contemporary Romance, Holiday Romance
Pages: 416
Format: eARC
Source: Avon
ISBN: 0062311425
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four-stars

Christmas in Twilight, Texas, is all merriment and mistletoe. The Cookie Club is whipping up their most festive sweets, the townspeople are scrambling to get their holiday shopping done, and Joe—a hometown guy with a restless heart—is dreaming about the woman he wants to kiss most...
...And who happens to be staying at his sister's place over the holidays, while Joe's sister is away. But Joe isn't quite sure he wants to be a living Christmas present to runaway law student Gabi Preston.
Joe thinks the sassy sweetheart he nicknames "Trouble" won't inconvenience anything but his healthy sex drive. But when he discovers the reasons Gabi escaped from her life, he aches to give her everything she's never had. As the magic of the season draws them together, the gift of love is the only one worth giving…

My Review

This was such a charming Holiday themed story. What we have here is a bit of “exchanged student” theme…kinda. Two friends that meet through pinterest of all places, keep contact with each other through email. Our heroine wants a taste of Christmas which she has never had Her younger brother died when she was young on Christmas and ever since her parents have avoided celebrating it. But Gabi Preston wants everything that comes with the celebrating of Christmas. The caroling, finding the perfect Christmas tree, the music, and the happy celebrations, the snow and sledding and much more. Her friend wants to get away from Twilight and its small town charm and the stress of the holidays. She wants to relax in the big city. So they decide to switch places. But upon arriving, Gabi is surrounded by Joe, her friends over protective brother who wants to know where his sister is and why she isn’t in Twilight and exactly where he can find her. OH boy, these two. Things start off to a rocky start for them. They have great chemistry with each other, but they have only two weeks. So nothing can be permanenet. As they end up spending the time celebrating and connecting. I was completely won over by reading this Christmas setting with a small town charm. I love reconnecting with previous characters from the series. All the fun cute clubs of various women in town. There was quite a bit of emotion, and brought me to tears when it came to Gabi and her brother. He is the reason she craves a Christmas experience, she wants to honor him and I really liked that about this story. Having a strong family connections that come into play in the story. Joe is such a swoon worthy hero. He is protective, strong and caring. The romance was steady but didn’t take too long for some action to happen. They only have two weeks together, so when it feels right they embrace what they have together….trying to make every moment count. Emotionally provacative and a lightly sensual romance that builds into a stunning love story!! BEAUTIFULLY SPUN ROMANCE!!!

Series Order

The Sweethearts Knitting ClubThe True Love Quilting ClubThe First Love Cookie ClubThe Welcome Home Garden clubThe Christmas Cookie CollectionChristmas At TwilightI'll Be Home For Christmas

About Lori Wilde

Lori Wilde can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to write. She even went to nursing school so she could have a schedule flexible enough to allow her to write on the side. She nursed for 20 years, working in a variety of settings from the newborn nursery to the recovery room, to dialysis. But she never lost her desire to write.

She sold her first book in 1994 to Silhouette Romance but later discovered she had a flair for comedy and branched out to Harlequin Duets and now, to Blaze.

Lori is an adventuresome soul who loves to travel. She’s taken flying lessons, completed two marathons, rode in a hot-air balloon, performed with a professional jazz band, traveled Europe as a teenager, hiked volcanoes in Hawaii, trod on glaciers in Alaska, shot white-water rapids, water-skied, snow-skied, raced all-terrain vehicles, bodysurfed in the Gulf of Mexico, and photographed grizzly bears in Yellowstone.

She lives in her native Texas, with her own real-life hero, Bill.

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8 Comments

  1. Red Iza

    Perfect for the season 😉 Pinterest ?! I never thought of Pinterest like that, lol !

    Reply
  2. Quinn's Book Nook

    I’ve been curious about Lori Wilde and this one seems sooo cute. Is it a full length novel?

    Reply
  3. Lily B

    so glad you enjoyed this, i loved her last book cant wait to meet the characters in this

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  4. Ann Lorz

    I love her books. I’m holding this one to read in December. Nice review!

    Reply
  5. Bea @ Bea's Book Nook

    It sounds really sweet. I don’t think I’ve read Wilde before. It’s a different take on Pinterest for sure.

    Reply
  6. Sophia Rose

    Ah, it’s like that one movie and I loved that. Sounds like she really needs a good Christmas. I still haven’t read any of these books and they’ve been on my list forever.

    Reply
  7. Anna@herding cats&burning soup

    I’m just peeking a little! I got this one for review but haven’t read it yet. Yay for it being good!

    Reply

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