A Miracle for Christmas
by LeAnne Bristow
Series: 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas #1, Christmas Town #1
on October 10th 2018
Genres: Sweet Holiday Romance
Pages: 158
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: A Christmas Carousel Proposal, Pride and Presents, Sleigh Bells in the Snow, Our Christmas Promise, Defending Christmas, The Hope Chest, Paint Me a Christmas, A Gift Horse, Santa School, The Dark Horse, His Christmas Carousel Baby, Five Golden Wishes, Christmas Town Homecoming: A 10-Book Connected Holiday Romance Collection
Jaycee Garland was too tall, too fast, too strong, and too independent to fit in with the girls. So she does her own thing. Whether it is pushing her students to think outside the box in history class, her players on the basketball court, or herself as a volunteer with Search and Rescue, she encourages everyone to blaze their own path. Too bad she can’t convince her best friend to follow his dream instead of being bullied by his father.
When an injury ended Tyler Gibson’s hockey career, cooking was the only thing that kept him focused and gave him a new purpose. As both the culinary arts teacher and the high school hockey coach, he’s finally found a way to feed both of his passions. With two state titles under his coaching belt, Tyler is pressured to break into college coaching. If he can’t make it to the National Hockey League as a player, he’ll do it as a coach and finally prove to his father that he’s not worthless. But that would mean leaving Christmas Town behind…and his best friend, Jaycee.
When Jaycee is asked to be a bridesmaid in the Christmas Eve wedding, she has to pull off the biggest transformation in history. Will turning this tomboy into a lady be the push that Tyler needs to see her as more than a friend? Will catering the wedding help Tyler admit what he really wants? It’ll take more than luck for things to work out between these two, but Christmas Town always has a miracle or two in store for people with the courage to believe.
Can Tyler and Jaycee admit they have feelings for each other?
A Miracle for Christmas by LeAnne Bristow is the first book in the 12 Days of Heartwarming Christmas, and this story is the first of the six bridesmaids. Ms. Bristow does a great job telling Jaycee’s story and still keeping it true from the first novella to this full-length novel. I do love Tyler as well. I enjoyed this book immensely, and I can’t wait to read the other books in this series.
Jaycee Garland
The main female character is Jaycee Garland, and she is the cousin to Lisa Garland. Jaycee is going to be one of the bridesmaids at the wedding. However, she doesn’t understand why Lisa would pick her. Besides the fact that they are family and that Jaycee is doing the family a favor. At least that is what Jaycee thinks. Jaycee has a hang-up about her height that she allows to distort her self-image.
What I liked:
- I like about Jaycee is that she does what she wants to do. By doing that she makes it so that people only see her as a tomboy and one of the guys and not possibly anything to do with being feminine.
- I like that she loves basketball.
- She likes teaching at Christmas Town because she knows this is where she belongs. The reason I like that is that she could easily go someplace else, but she loves this small town.
- And the last thing that I like about her is a search and rescue worker.
What I didn’t like:
I don’t like about Jaycee is that despite trying to be proud of who she is and embracing the fact that she is a beautiful young woman she lets bullies degrade her. Also, she can be a bit too stubborn for own her good, especially when it comes to her and Tyler.
Tyler Gibson
The main male character is Tyler Gibson, and he is Jaycee’s best friend and the love interest. He also is a teacher and coach at the school in Christmas Town. Tyler is probably going to end up being a date that Jaycee brings to Lisa’s wedding. He is still trying to figure out what he wants to be in life since his Hockey injury took him out of the NHL. Tyler grew up on the ice and has been trying to make his dad proud of him since his first day on a hockey team. Now, Tyler has to reinvent himself, but he truly has to find something to make him happy.
What I liked:
- I like about Tyler is that he has been friends with Jaycee through thick and thin of everything and they have stuck together.
- Another thing that I like about him is that he is trying to do the two things that he loves the most while not knowing which one he really wants. Tyler is the hockey coach at the high school and the teacher of culinary arts. He is really good at both.
- Even though Tyler’s dilemma is trying to choose between his two careers, he and Jaycee are still best friends.
What I didn’t like:
The first thing that I dislike about Tyler is that he doesn’t stand up to his dad. Seriously, man up and tell him to bud out.
And the last thing that I don’t like about Tyler is that he is just as stubborn as Jaycee. Perhaps if he could open his eyes and listen to his heart, he would see that he wants Jaycee to be more than a friend.
Five Star
I am giving A Miracle for Christmas by LeAnne Bristow a five-star rating. I thought that Ms. Bristow did an excellent job writing this story. I did love the dynamics between Jaycee, Tyler, and especially Miracle. These two are perfect for each other, and I can’t wait to see more about them in the future. Another thing I am looking forward to is reading more books by LeAnne Bristow in the future.
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About LeAnne Bristow
But as often happens with dreams, life gets in the way. She fell in love with an Arizona native who packed her up, stories and all, and moved her from her small town in central Texas to a smaller town in southern Arizona.
LeAnne spent the next 20 years corralling three of her own children and a classroom full of kindergartners. Then one fateful day, her husband found her box of stories. She couldn’t bear to throw the box away,so she began the long, arduous task of rewriting and editing.
When she’s not arguing with the characters in her head, she enjoys hunting, camping and fishing with her family. Her day job is teaching kindergarten, but now that her three kids are grown, she’s determined to teach her granddaughter how to catch lizards and love the desert as much as she does.
Taken from Author’s Amazon profile.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2018 Goodreads Reading Challenge
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