Book Review: His Mistletoe Family (Love Inspired)
Author: Ruth Logan Herne
I won this book in a contest and was lucky enough to receive
an autographed copy. Thank you, Ruthy. As with your other books, I truly
enjoyed this story.
I must admit the length of this books surprised me. Slightly
longer than a novella, it left me wishing for more. It’s a sweet story about a
woman that becomes guardian of her two orphaned nephews and has no idea how to
be a parent. She meets Brett Stanton, a significantly older man, when she takes
the boys to a free Thanksgiving dinner at a church. Brett is a former soldier
doing his best to forget what his influence did to his only son and his younger
brother. When Haley Jennings walks into his life he finds himself wanting to
live again instead of hide from life as he has been. The age difference between
this couple was written in such a way that I found myself forgetting about it
until those moments when it cropped up in the story. Times like when Brett
tells Haley he was in the army for twenty five years…and I remember that she’s
twenty eight. This was a good, clean book that kept me entertained to the end.
Book Rating: Good
Young Reader Rating: 13 and up
There were no adult scenes in this book. The few kisses were
short and sweet and mostly blended into the moment so that only a couple seemed
to hold great significance. The hero did father a child out of wedlock and was
an absentee dad. And the heroine spends more time at work than with her new
family. Although neither of these situations is a problem or treated in any way
that comes across as such, I can see where it could influence younger readers.
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