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At eighteen years old, both Nancy Caldwell and John Ehrlich are planning on enlisting in different branches of the military. After they were each stood up for the Christmas dance when their dates, formerly a couple, decided to get back together, Nancy and John have become good friends.
Realizing there was something special developing between them, they say goodbye while making a somewhat serious commitment—they would meet again at Dragonfly Pointe ten years later if they weren’t involved in another serious relationship.
Will a long ago promise of love bring these two lonely wounded warriors home for Christmas?
Publication date: December 2019
Mature content: yes, but nothing overly graphical
Review: Running the risk of going against the raving reviews on Amazon and Goodreads, I'm going to say this book didn't work for me. I downloaded it partly because of exactly all those great reviews, and partly because the synopsis left me curious.
But actually reading it left me disappointed. Basically Nancy and John meet when their respective dates to a high school event dump them both. In the space of that one night and a few days more, they fall in love. Fast forward a couple of months and they say goodbye because she's enlisting in the Air Force and he's enlisting in the Army. They decide to separate in order to be 100% focused on their careers but agree that in ten years time, if they are still single, they will meet again and see where their relationship goes. If nothing better comes up in the meantime, they are each-other's backup plan to avoid being lonely in old age It may be just me, but the whole thing sounds more like a business arrangement than love.
Fast forward ten years and they are both back home. We're told he had affairs, she was engaged to be married to another man, then they meet again and bam - happily ever after. The end.
I still think the story had potential, but the writing isn't that great. There is no character development, and the whole story is just a rushed account of past and present events. More time is spent describing John's dance moves than even the character's hopes and dreams.
The only great thing about this book is the fact that it's short. I read it in an evening with time to spare. Am I curious about the other books in the series? Yes, mostly because the stories seem promising. Am I going to read another one soon? Probably not, but maybe one day, in hopes that Two Hearts Home for Christmas was a fluke and the others are way better.
Happy readings!
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