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Finding a Christmas Home

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First of all, this is a Christian romance. I hadn't remembered that Harlequin's Love Inspired line is Christian faith-based. In that respect, Finding a Christmas Home falls into the trap of so many Christian centric romance novels - it spends quite a bit of time proselytizing to the detriment of the story. This book takes it a bit further by insinuating that anyone who isn't Christian is not a good person. Things like kissing are sinful. The characters are flat. The main character, Hannah, is not a likeable character and just has a weak, self-deprecating personality. There is a constant theme that Hannah wants to date now in order to find a husband to help her raise her twin nieces, because "children need a man." It's overly critical of any family who isn't a two-person, cis-het straight family. Forget all of those wonderful families with same sex parents, the great single parents out there, or the other non-traditional families full of love even though they may have grandparents, friends, or someone else raising the kids. Hannah and Luke end up marrying. After no dates, acting like uncommunicative grumps with one another, and having shared one brief kiss at some point, Luke asks Hannah to marry her. The faith required by this book is believing the story line has any merit.

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