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This review is for Candlelight Christmas, a Lakeshore Chronicles book. The two main people it centers around are Logan O'Donnell and Darcy Fitzgerald. Both are divorced, Darcy more recently and feeling much more raw over the loss. Darcy's best friend happens to be Logan's sister India. Of course, she decides the two should meet. Don't our loved ones always want us to be happy? And happy together they will be; the reader will arrive at this conclusion before the couple does. Also in the mix are their close-knit families (in Darcy's case, this includes her ex-husband, who happens to be the child of her parents' best friends), including Logan's son Charlie.
The plot is somewhat predictable, but it did hold my interest. I enjoyed the characters and liked riding along with them. I did feel that I couldn't see inside some people's heads. The writer gives us a good view of Logan, Darcy, Charlie and some others, but I couldn't really picture or understand some of the other minor, but still important characters. I enjoyed the settings (skiing in the mountains, Thanksgiving at the beach), especially because of reading it in the winter. The travel in the novel was a lot of the fun.
Susan Wiggs is certainly a competent writer. This is an easy, fun holiday read-- entertaining but not challenging. If you like well-written romance novels without lots of sex, this a great book for you.
Reviewer: Lorien Goodale
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