I am having so much fun exploring new authors this year and finding these holiday stories that I missed from previous years. Making His List is one these. Cory has his sister and her daughter Bailey living with him. His sister has problems with drugs and alcohol and she is incredibly irresponsible. Cory wants to give Bailey a stable home environment, not the constant moving from man to man that she has experienced with her mother. The problem is, Cory has been seeing Ken casually for several months. He tells Ken in no uncertain terms that he is not to stay over and not to be involved with his family. Ken accepts this until one night when Cory's niece is very sick and Ken ends up helping out.I adored Ken's character. I am not sure what he saw in Cory exactly. Cory was pretty much a callous jerk for the most part - towards Ken at least. I enjoyed watching the story evolve, even if there were times I wanted to thunk Cory - hard. There are definitely communication problems! Bailey is a wonderful character and my heart went out to her. Overall, I thought this was a wonderful addition to my holiday reading. Recommended. :-) I confess, I have a phobia of getting stomach flus -- seriously. I start to feel sick, every time I read about other people having them. So this story was difficult for me to get into, at first, with the little girl being ill. However, that's my problem -- not the author's. Once I got past that, I found this to be a beautiful and engrossing story. The only issue I really had with the story itself was that the resolution of the romantic conflict was resolved a bit too easily. Not ridiculously so, but I would have liked it to have taken a bit more effort on Cory's part to work things out. I highly recommend this one.
What do You think about Making His List (2010)?
I liked this story i liked both main characters. it's a nice quick Christmas read.
—Hey
Cute story. Easy read. Short story about two guys who already know each other.
—Joe
