Cute story. Occasional crude language but not throughout. A widow with four grown children decides to get married on Christmas day and requests that all of her children come to the wedding and to spend Christmas together. The unusual thing...she won't tell them whom she is marrying. She tells them in a series of videos about all three of her suitors. Each of her children and their families have challenges and they are met with the strength of their family. I enjoyed the book and it will be a part of my collection of Christmas stories by famous authors who don't usually write Christmas stories. Cheesy. Unbelievable. Preposterous. Superficial. Undeveloped. ...why do I do this to myself? *sigh* What it had going for it: fast, easy read. Good tone - very conversational, relatable writing style. Topical references. Now, the problems: the story is completely beyond reality. Three men - all friends - are just going to sit around and wait to see which of them the lady wants to marry - ignorant until the wedding itself? Yeah right. A rabbi is going to propose to a Gentile without working it out with his flock first? A brother-in-law is going to propose willy-nilly to his dead brother's wife? ANY of these men are going to propose without courting - let alone THREE of them? ...and how could the wedding be legal without a license? lol Plus, there's the fact that all the characters are completely one-dimensional. I could go on and on, but I don't want to be any more negative than I've been. This is a 1.5 star book - I rounded up to 2 since it can be read in a sitting or two.
Not your typical Patterson novel, this one is a light-hearted story of a widow who is planning a Christmas wedding, revealing to her four grown children that there will be a wedding, but she is not revealing the name of the groom until that day. There are three possible grooms, and she is considering each of their proposals. Each of the children has a side story, as well as one of the grandchildren. The mystery is not revealed until she is at the altar.
—Cort
Not your typical Patterson novel, this one is a light-hearted story of a widow who is planning a Christmas wedding, revealing to her four grown children that there will be a wedding, but she is not revealing the name of the groom until that day. There are three possible grooms, and she is considering each of their proposals. Each of the children has a side story, as well as one of the grandchildren. The mystery is not revealed until she is at the altar.
—clau
Story is pretty ridiculous, but sucked me in.
—Leesha
DNF
—Larry
