Breath of Christmas

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Pub Date 12 Dec 2012 | Archive Date 22 Nov 2018

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Description

When Esther Beauchamp agrees to drive a snowmobile during the Santa Snow Challenge, she expects a problem-free weekend of transporting snowboarders. What she gets is the task of transporting a single snowboarder and babysitting his service dog while he's on the slope. Robbie Kendrick is instantly attracted to the pretty staffer who volunteered to help him during the competition. While she's clueless about asthma, he appreciates her efforts to understand how it affects him and his snowboarding. Best of all, she treats him like a man who isn't disabled and gets along great with his medical alert dog. But when Robbie's ability to compete is called into question, is it in God's plan for him to give up the career he loves, or will his competitive spirit cause him to lose his chance at a future with Esther?

When Esther Beauchamp agrees to drive a snowmobile during the Santa Snow Challenge, she expects a problem-free weekend of transporting snowboarders. What she gets is the task of transporting a single...


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Featured Reviews

Esther is only working at the Ski resort for the weekend until the Santa Snow Challenge is over. When her boss asks her to drive around a certain competitor, Esther agrees. But things are more complicated than they seem. Her job isn't just to tote him around, it's also to carry around his service dog.

Robbie isn't going to let something like asthma keep him from pursuing his dream of being a snowboarder. And he certainly won't let anyone talk him out of competing in the Santa Snow Challenge. He knows the risks. One false move and he could be dead but it's worth it. It's never fun to have constant asthma attacks but with Molly his service dog by his side, what could go wrong?

My major complaints in short stories is that authors tend to have a rushed romance that feels to unrealistic to be true. This is the first time I've read a short story where I felt like things progressed naturally. This was an interesting read, drawing me in from the very beginning.

This book is appropriate for all ages.

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Breath of Christmas bye E.A. West

Synopsis
This is a story about a professional snowboarder with severe environmental asthma with a service dog, which allows him to be independent. He meets Esther a woman who is working the event for only one weekend to help out her neighbor. During the competition circumstances cause Robbie to have a severe asthma attack, which leads him to pray for further direction in his life. Not wanting to quit competing, he learns that God doesn’t always give you the answers you like to hear. Will Robbie keep is faith in God and see the potential gift he could have or will he put himself in danger repeatedly until he can no longer breathe?

Hero Description
Robbie has a strong faith in God and has resigned to the fact that he will not ever get over his asthma that he dealing with since he was 10. There are several environmental triggers for it, which is where Molly the service dog comes in. Molly is able to detect potential triggers and decrease Robbie’s overall anxiety during a severe asthma attack. He has stopped praying for healing and started praying for strength to make it through each episode stronger than he did before.

Heroine Description
Esther is a professional computer programmer that recently relocated to Colorado after graduating college. Though it left her parents disappointed that she moved very far away. She has a neighbor who runs the local ski resort, who is like a father figure and has helped her out, in her parents absence. She knows nothing about snowboarding when she agrees to help her neighbor over the weekend with the Santa Snow Snowboarding Competition. At the last minute she is told that she will be working the event as a personal assistance for Robbie Kendrick one of the greatest competitive snowboarders.

Book Details
This is a very short stand alone novel. It goes fast and left me turning the pages. I know some made the complaint that it was rushed because of the length, but in all honesty, I thought the flow was spot on for a novella. I also like that it is very clean and you know exactly where each characters faith lies.

My Opinion
I give this book 4 - Stars. It was simple, sweet, short and had great character building. I would recommend it for Adults and Teens.

5***** = Best book ever!
4**** = Excellent book.
3*** = Good book.
2** = Meh, it was ok.
1* = Did not care for it.

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Breath of Christmas is a very well written inspirational romance. I enjoyed the plot, characters and writing. I received an arc from Netgalley and this is my unbiased review.

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