Any Given Christmas
Author: Candis Terry
Publisher: Avon Impulse
Pub. Date: November 22, 2011
ISBN-13: 978-0062133298
Pages: 368
Digital Price: $3.99
Print Retail Price: $7.99
Amazon ~ B&N ~ iBookstoreDean Silverthorne’s mother may be dead, but she still has matchmaking to do.
When an injury dashes NFL Quarterback Dean Silverthorne’s Super Bowl dreams, he heads back to Deer Lick, Montana, with a chip on his wounded shoulder, more determined than ever to get back in the game. He loves his kooky family, but this trip home is going to be a very brief Christmas visit.
His game plan doesn’t include an instant attraction to Emma Hart, a feisty kindergarten teacher who seems to be the only person in Deer Lick not interested in the hometown hero. Or his dearly departed mom popping up with mistletoe in hand and meddling on the mind. Now Dean can’t help but wonder if there’s more to love than life between the goal posts.
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REVIEW
Any Given Christmas is a contemporary romance set in a small town with interesting characters.
Emma is a small town teacher who dreams of settling down and starting a family. The only problem is that she can’t seem to find the right man. The only man that she has found herself attracted to in a long time is the one man that she knows wouldn’t be in a committed relationship with her.
Dean is dealing with the recent death of his mother and a career ending injury. His whole life has revolved around football and now he has to find some other way to fill the hours of his day. He returns to his hometown for the wedding of his little sister and finds that there may be something and someone for him there.
I loved Dean as much as I disliked Emma. Emma couldn’t get over something from her past and held it against Dean even through it really had nothing to do with him. Plus, she gets upset when he doesn’t focus on how something terrible that happens to him would affect her. Dean does things for her that matter and she just pushes him aside. He even buys her a cat, although he is allergic to them. In the end I couldn’t help but think that there was someone better out in the world for Dean and that their relationship wouldn’t last. The happily ever after just wasn’t very believable.
Rating: 2 (Fatally Flawed)
Heat Level: 3 (Sensual)
Reviewed by Carrie
How often do we see this set-up in romances. The conflict in the relationship makes for a good story, but only when both characters aren’t too pigheaded to give a little. Sounds like Emma has a problem she won’t allow to be solved. Too bad.
Thanks for the review.
Great review Carrie! Cute cover. I guess that’s the cat Dean buys Emma? 🙂
Tough but I like the cover.
Thanks Carrie for your review. A friend of mine actually read this book and thought as you do. I must agree, the cover is cute, even though, I too am allergic to Cats.