On A Snowy Night

On A Snowy night includes two stories "A Christmas Basket" and "The Snow Bride". Both are pretty short, but they were fun to read anyway. My favorite of the two was The Christmas Basket, but I loved the ending of "The Snow Bride".

The Christmas Basket is about this guy and a girl, Thomas Sutton and Noelle McDowell who were high school sweethearts, but then after a big misunderstanding (they just didn't realize it) went their seperate ways. They meet again 10 years later when Noelle comes home for Christmas. Meanwhile, their mothers can't stand each other after Noelle's mom, Sarah, borrows a very special tea set and lies to Thomas' mom (Mary) about what she's using it for. It gets lost, and Mary never forgives Sarah. They are both assigned to work on the Christmas Baskets for the church and are forced to be civil to each other....they almost can't even do that.....it takes them having car trouble on the side of the road and being stranded to call it a truce....then when they find out that their children are getting married, everyone is overjoyed.

The Snow Bride is about a girl named Jenna who meets this guy, Dalton over the internet. She then makes plans to go to Alaska and meet him in person. She really wants this to work, but unfortunately, little does she know, Dalton is not who he says he is. Luckily, when she arrives at the airport, Dalton is nowhere to be found, and instead she runs into Reid, who knows exactly what kind of person Dalton is. Reid kidnaps Jenna and takes her to Snowbound, Alaska, a town so small, there is only ONE woman living in that town. Everyone grows to love Jenna and is sad when she's finally able to leave after the storm. In the meantime, Reid and Jenna fall in love and just don't know how to express their feelings to each other, and neither really want to BELIEVE their feelings....so it takes Jenna going back home to realize how they really feel about each other. They end up getting married in the end.

Since these stories were both so short, I really didn't have much time to have opinions about anyone....I thought Dalton was a scumbag, and I could tell the attraction between Jenna and Reid right from the start. I LOVED Lucy.

I finished this book on 10/31/07