His Christmas Miracle by Dani Collins

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Title: His Christmas Miracle
Author: Dani Collins
Series: Love in Montana #5
Published by: Tule Publishing
Release Date: October 27, 2016
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 238
Genres: Romance, Contemporary, Holiday
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2019 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER With Friends
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My rating:

Blurb:

Quincy Ryan was just handed custody of a son he didn’t know existed. He knows how to be an architect, not a dad, so he looks to his own father for guidance, but that means moving with Pops to Marietta, Montana. Quincy knows he has to get over his shock and give Atlas the Christmas he deserves, but how? He needs a miracle.

Nicki Darren, failed actress, will take any job as Christmas approaches, even babysitting for a withdrawn, workaholic, single father. She lost her mom as a child, too, and hasn’t had a real Christmas since, so she identifies with four-year-old Atlas.

An advent calendar of activities soon has Nicki pulling Quincy out of the house to get a tree and ice skate with his son. She wants Quincy to open his heart to Atlas, but begins to fall for the Ryan men herself. It makes the countdown to her last day, Christmas Eve, bittersweet. If only the miracle he is looking for included her…

My Review:

4.5 stars — This book was exactly what I was looking for in a Christmas novel!!  It had characters that I connected with and felt for, fun moments, sad moments, wintery moments…it was nice after having some bad luck.

Nicki was pretty easy for me to relate to — I loved her spunky happy personality, how she sought out joy in the little things.  I also related to her sense of failure, and it was nice to see her work through that in this book.  I loved the way she connected and bantered with Pops, and she was exactly what Atlas and Quincy needed in their lives.

I actually connected with parts of Quincy’s personality too, his natural reticence with people and scars from childhood.  I loved that even though he was worried about being a good father, he didn’t shy away from the opportunities that Nicki gave him.  I was a bit bummed with his reluctance to show affection — it was very stereotypically male, and it didn’t really fit with who Pops was…but alas.

The chemistry between Nicki and Quincy was actually pretty great…I loved all these moments you got to see as they both felt a connection with one another, but resisted it.  And even though it was a bit slow burn, I really felt their emotions when the climax finally came around.  I honestly wasn’t sure how it was going to resolve, but I was happy with how it did.

There were some great secondary characters in this one, from ones that played a large role to ones that played just a fleeting part.  The town of Marietta is so richly developed, with so many characters and couples from other books (both by this author and from others) that it’s fun to see it from different perspectives.

But the highlight for me was wholeheartedly the relationships that both Nicki and Quincy develop with Atlas.  He’s a super cute kid, but I also really felt for his emotional upheaval, and having to get used to strangers becoming family.  I loved the way the Christmas activities every day helped them all grow together, and it totally got me into the spirit along with them.

So yeah…a solid Christmas book, and a romance I could root for.