Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track—and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store.
After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling in the local community college to earn her degree. What she doesn’t plan to do is run into Erich Simmons.
Addie and her next-door neighbor, Erich, are like night and day. Growing up, he was popular and outgoing while she was rebellious and headstrong, and he never missed an opportunity to tease her. Now she intends to avoid him entirely, yet when they’re suddenly forced to spend Christmas together, Addie braces for trouble.
Perhaps it’s the spirit of the season or the magic of mistletoe, but Addie and Erich soon find they have more in common than they thought—and that two people who seem so wrong for each other may actually be just right. With a little prompting from a certain angelic teacher, the two are in for a holiday miracle they’ll never forget.
My review...........2 stars
This is the last of my holiday reviews (from the holiday read-a-thon), although that doesn't mean that I won't pick up another book in December from my stash 🙂
This one was my least favorite of all that I read. First of all, let it be said that I don't like books about anything other than real people (no ghosts, angels, aliens, zombies, etc.). Obviously that was going to be a problem with this book. I decided to try it out because I read some good reviews for it, and thought maybe it would change my mind about these kinds of books. Didn't happen. I thought the whole angel thing was silly, I hated the woman who tries to seduce him, the whole plot with Addie and Erich seemed really contrived, plus there was no character development to even make me like them!
I think this is my last book I'll be reading by this author. I tried one a few months ago (Love Letters), and didn't like that one either (and I don't think it had any angels....lol). I'm no literary snob, but her writing is just too simplistic for me. I don't know how to describe it any better than that. It never really draws me in.
I probably should have given this only 1 star, but it got 2 because it is a holiday themed book (and I'm a sucker for them), and the cover was pretty 🙂
After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling in the local community college to earn her degree. What she doesn’t plan to do is run into Erich Simmons.
Oh my goodness, that is exactly what I was thinking of when I wrote this. I too used to read Danielle Steele in my twenties, and then once I started reading other authors I realized what a well written story really entails. As long as people are reading, it's absolutely fine with me whatever they want to read, but I think I need a story with a little more meat to it in order to enjoy it.