Waiting for Christmas. Lynn Austin. 2024. 288 pages. [Source: Library] [novella; christian fiction; historical fiction; holiday; Christmas; romance] [3 stars]
First sentence: Adelaide Forsythe held on to her hat in the wintry wind as she hurried home from the trolley stop.
Waiting for Christmas is a holiday novella starring characters from Lynn Austin's All My Secrets. Adelaide and Howard are preparing to celebrate their first Christmas together since marrying. What neither expected was to find an orphaned boy, Jack, and his younger sister, Polly, filling their home with one surprise after the other. Their mother has died; their father is at sea. Both are expecting a miracle for Christmas, it is harder for Howard and Adelaide to have faith in that miracle.
It is unusual for christian historical romance to focus in on the first few months of marriage and chronicle the adjustment and transition. Most focus on the courtship and wedding....only offering epilogues now and then to fill out what happens after the happily ever after. (That's not to say that this does not happen, Janette Oke's Love Comes Softly comes to mind.)
I am reading this one out of season. Perhaps reading it during the holiday season would make me feel all warm and cozy. I liked it well enough. I did. I don't know that I absolutely adored it. Then again, I'm not sure I absolutely and completely loved All My Secrets either. I think if you did love All My Secrets this one would definitely be worth reading OR if you love holiday-themed novellas.
It is set in New York City, turn of the century, 1901.
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