Twelve Days of Christmas

This year, I haven't really stayed true to my tradition of reading holiday novels. I don't know why.  Maybe I don't feel the HO Ho Ho of the season this year. However, I was in my local library and saw Twelve Days of Christmas and decided to give it a shot.

I have read a lot of Debbie Macomber.  She writes romances and I like reading them in between the other things I read.  Her holiday novels usually end up on the Hallmark Channel and I love watching the Hallmark channel during the holiday season. One of my favorites of her that is playing this season is Trading Christmas.  Faith Ford, Tom Cavanagh and Gil Bellows are in the movie and it works.
Twelve Days of Christmas is her 2016 holiday novel and it goes something like this:

Julia and Cain live in the same apartment building.  Actually they live on the same floor, like right across from each other.  She is a perky, upbeat kind of woman and he is an unfriendly, bah humbug kind of guy.  He has no holiday spirit and no people skills.  Julia decides to kill him with kindness to see if she can win him over.  She even blogs about it so the world knows how things are going with her kill him with kindness quest.

Sparks start to fly and I can't tell you more because you need to read it for yourself.

Happy Holidays! and enjoy.

Before the Fall

Eleven passengers or should I say souls in airplane speak, board a private jet one summer evening.  About fifteen minutes into the flight something goes horribly wrong and there is a crash.  Two on-board survive.  The two survivors find themselves in the middle of the ocean and only because of pure determination do they make it to shore.

Several of the people on the plane were high profile kind of guys. Immediately, as is always the case, there is speculation about what caused the crash.  Sadly one of the first questions in any crash now a days is Was it an act of terror?  After that the usual scenarios are reviewed.

What was most interesting about this book was how the author created the story by telling all the back stories about the passengers and the crew.  His take on media coverage was interesting and frightening.  As we have seen many times once the media gets involved the story takes on a life of its own.  I am all for getting information out to the public and transparency etc, but sometimes a journalist will go a little too far and create a story.  The story may ultimately prove to be wrong and innocent people become collateral damage.

Put Before the Fall on your reading list.