A Seaside Christmas

I jumped on the bandwagon with Melissa and her newly organized Book Tours & Quilts. It started with a love of fiction from Debbie Macomber, and I decided to go along and read another well recommended author in Sherryl Woods as well. I was in the mood for a Christmas romance so I found myself very optimistic about this read. In the end I'm half and half. If you know me, you know that I mostly read Christian Fiction, and mostly Christian Historical Fiction, so there is about a handful of General Market authors that I absolutely adore. The story of A Seaside Christmas is good, and for someone who has not read the other Seaside stories it definitely does promote an interest to jump into reading others in the series. However it was just too much casual life for me to truly enjoy it. Too much marital discord, too much adultery, too much abandonment, too much premarital sex. Sure it's life in today's culture, but as a Christian it's not what I want to surround myself with or support. Overall it was pretty mild, in the way that the language was fine and no overly hot scenes to provide discomfort. There was just too much red in my mind of why they were so upset and sad and of course the answers weren't really given just sort of by passed. Truly I cannot decide if this is a positive or negative review. I like the book, I like the story, I just don't like the acceptance of a blatantly sinful life. But then I read everything from my inspirational perspective. No matter what, people can change and the characters all prove that and prove to be interesting and entertaining.

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