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A Dixie Christmas (2011)

by Sandra Hill(Favorite Author)

3.13 of 5 Votes: 4

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bell Bridge Books

review 1: I enjoy a fun and easy read, but this felt totally brainless. The characters and story were under-developed, and the character's inner dialogue kept me groaning. It honestly felt like the sex scene and inner dialogue about sex was written first with a loose story around it to be able to call it a book. I understand that it was written as a comedy, but even a light hearted comedy needs at least a little substance, and for me this had none.
review 2: A Dixie Christmas by Sandra Hill is really two Novellas in one book.I did not really enjoy this book. I enjoyed the humour in both stories but I neither liked the sentence construction or the lack of realism. The first story Blue Christmas has two opposite personalities ~ Clayton is super rich, a successful busine... moress man with no family or close relationships. He has expensive clothes and lifestyle. He is stuffy and self absorbed. Annie is a member of large family, poor, ordinary, not afraid of getting her hands mucky (as seen in the scene where she has her arm up a cows backside) with simple tastes and needs. Yet they meet and fall immediately in love, with Clayton proposing marriage within 48 hours, when they know virtually nothing about each other other than the spark of physical chemistry. The sentences often seemed overly long. I just didn't like the vocabulary and phrasing in others, ie "She saw his arousal and felt her own arousal throb in counterpart"! The first time they make love (Annie is a virgin) they have as much conversation as they do sex ~ sex for the first time in a relationship is usually heated and passionate ~ certainly not a time for a friendly chat! The same night as Annie loses her virginity they have sex four times. She would have been too sore for a second time and would have needed a little recovery time before once more using hitherto unused parts of her body ~ she certainly wouldn't have been able to endure four times in quick succession (the first time being the loss of her virginity) without walking like Robocop the next day!In Jinx Christmas we have a 7 year old little girl suggest to her Mummy that she buy a see through nightie to please daddy! I have a 7 year old niece and no way would she say something like that! I would be outraged if she did! Lance and Brenda divorced over her mistrust and the fact that he had a one night stand when they'd been separated. She's apparently been angry at him for five years about this ~ however, one sexy dance, a couple of shots of bourbon and she'e ready to forgive him and start again.I feel that these stories would have been better printed in a Woman's magazine. I did enjoy the humour in the stories but this did not redeem the lack of realism and consequently I will not be looking for other books by this author. less

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