The Mistletoe Inn
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Richard Paul Evans
The second holiday love story in New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans’s Mistletoe Collection.At thirty-two, Kimberly Rossi—a finance officer at a Lexus car dealership—has had her heart broken more times than she wants to remember. With two failed engagements, a divorce, and again alone with no prospects, she hardly seems the type to dream of being a published romance author. Dreading another holiday alone, she signs up for The Mistletoe Retreat, a nine-day writing retreat in Burlington, Vermont. Deep inside Kimberly knows she’s at a junction in her life and it’s time to either fulfill her dream or let it go. The other reason she decides to attend the conference is because famed romance writer, H.T. Cowell, once the best selling romance writer in America, and the author whose books instilled in her the desire to be a writer, will be speaking in public for the first time in more than a decade. In one of her breakout sessions Kimberly meets another aspiring writer, and one of the few men at the conference, Zeke, an intelligent man with a wry wit who seems as interested in Kimberly as he is in the retreat. As Kimberly begins to open up to him about her stories and dreams, she inadvertently reveals her own troubled past. As Zeke helps her to discover why her books fail to live up to their potential she begins to wonder if he’s really talking more about her life than her literature. But as she grows closer to him, she realizes that Zeke has his own darkness, a past he’s unwilling to talk about. The Mistletoe Inn reveals that, like literature, relationships must be lived with passion and vulnerability to succeed.
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Author
Richard Paul Evans
Pages
320
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Published Date
2015-11-17
ISBN
150111980X 9781501119804
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"Well there is no way not to sound like a jerk but here it goes. The characters felt real but they almost had too many problems to be completely believable. That being said I thought the author did well on expressing her views on depression. (You can throw your rotten vegetables now)<br/><br/>Unfortunately I saw the twist pretty early on though it didn't hamper my enjoyment of the story much. The overflowing emotion from the "to much drama" I mentioned didn't seem organic. Again, I say this too often, romances are usually good until the couple gets together then the dialog turns to mush. So while I liked the first half of the tale, the second fell short."
Ashley
"This is the 5th book by Richard Paul Evans that I've read/listened to. I'm hooked. He has a lot of insight into every day and big life struggles. Always great messages through out the stories. Very realistic characters. This is a great book to read if you ever want to be a fiction writer. I do not want to write but I have quite a few friends that do. The advice woven into the story would surely be helpful."
Robin Wright