The crunch of newly fallen snow, the weight of wartime
Siblings forging new paths and finding love in three stories,
filled with the wonder of Christmas
Turn back the clock to a different time, listen to Bing Crosby sing of sleigh bells in the snow, as the realities of America’s involvement in the Second World War change the lives of the Turner family in Lafayette, Indiana.
In Cara Putman’s White Christmas, Abigail Turner is holding down the Home Front as a college student and a part-time employee at a one-of-a-kind candy shop. Loss of a beau to the war has Abigail skittish about romantic entanglements—until a hard-working young man with a serious problem needs her help.
Abigail’s brother Pete is a fighter pilot hero returned from the European Theater in Sarah Sundin’s I’ll Be Home for Christmas, trying to recapture the hope and peace his time at war has eroded. But when he encounters a precocious little girl in need of Pete’s friendship, can he convince her widowed mother that he’s no longer the bully she once knew?
In Tricia Goyer’s Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, Meredith Turner, “Merry” to those who know her best, is using her skills as a combat nurse on the frontline in the Netherlands. Halfway around the world from home, Merry never expects to face her deepest betrayal head on, but that’s precisely what God has in mind to redeem her broken heart.
The Turner family believes in God’s providence during such a tumultuous time. Can they absorb the miracle of Christ’s birth and His plan for a future?
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Summary
Overall I am happy to report that I really liked this book! Typically, I am not a big fan of novels done by multiple authors, but this one was done so well! Each of the three ladies (Tricia Goyer, Cara Putnam, and Sarah Sundin) masterfully blended their personal styles, in addition to their individual story facts, to create a novel I will be happy to recommend. Perhaps part of their secret was how well they planned out their characters and facts related to the characters before writing. The novel itself is three separate but related stories about the same family: each author wrote her story about one of three siblings. All the stories are set during WorldWar 2, and each story is set in the weeks just prior to Christmas. The first story is set during the Christmas season of 1942, the second in 1943, and the third in 1944. Like bookends, there is a prologue and an epilogue on each end which are also set during the Christmas seasons of 1941 and 1945. I didn't find one inconsistency with any
of the characters that were shared throughout the three stories. This, along with a consistent home base of Lafeyette, Indiana, made for clarity and strength in the overall storyline. Each sibling grappled with very believable circumstances and relational issues that made it easy to love them and cheer them on. A strong biblical
worldview was clear throughout. I am still marveling that I enjoyed the novel so much! Well done, ladies!
Violence Minimal discussion of violence even though set in WW2. Really only the last book has any description of significance.
Sexual Clean romance!