This book was read as an
Advance Reading Copy (ARC) provided for free by the publisher.
Book: A Wizard for Christmas (part of the Protector series)
Author: DorothyMcFalls
Rating: PG (slight violence - a creature attacks a woman and there a couple dead bodies but they aren't described in detail - just that they are dead)
Bookshelves: 2012,
Chicago, fantasy, fiction, paranormal romance, romance, USA, wizard
Begun: December
6, 2012
Finished: December 7, 2012
Media Type: ebook (read on Kindle)
Setting: present
day Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Characters: Holly,
Hadrian
Synopsis: Holly
was an orphan who grew up to be a loner. When her friends ask her about her
Christmas plans, Holly lies and says that she’s going to her family’s home
where all sorts of fun things happen (like a cousin who keeps the memory of her
dead “uncle” Burl Ives alive by singing Christmas songs to the family). But a
strange … stranger keeps popping up in her neighborhood. Hadrian is a Protector
and knows that Holly is not what she thinks she is. She’s really a wizard, or,
as they call themselves, a Protector. And Hadrian knows that to defeat the big
baddie on the lose killing innocent mortal Chicagoans Holly will have to learn
the truth and start to trust someone other than herself.
Review: I
was not a huge fan of this novella. In the beginning of the novel, I found Holly
to be a dynamic character and that her interactions with the mysterious Hadrian
were intriguing. But, the author fell flat creating a completely three
dimensional world with Hadrian and Holly at the center. Very quickly, Holly became the kind of heroine
that I despise: insular; never listening to anyone else (especially those with
more experience that can help her); and one that runs away from problems (both
real life and perceived problems). She spends more than 3/4th of the
books hating Hadrian and running from him and then in the last few pages (when
the ultimate confrontation occurs), she totally flips her stance on the matter.
Magic played a very, very small role in the novella and was discussed only as a
cursory item (which is strange since the title is A Wizard for Christmas).
In my
opinion, this book gets:
3 out of 5 stars (fair - could be better/could
be worse)
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