I love Richard Paul Evans Christmas books. The Gift a little bit older book that I missed. It was chosen as the December pick for the Page-turner’s Book Club at the Kewaunee Public Library. I was excited to read this one and to discuss it with the club last week.
Nathan Hurst works security at Music World. He travels the country to ensure that employee
theft is not happening at their stores.
On one trip, he meets a single mother, Addison, who is trying to get
back to Salt Lake City with her two children.
Stranded at the airport, he helps the family out by letting them sleep in
his suite at the hotel. Addison’s son Collin
has leukemia, but he also has a special gift to be able to heal people. Each time he uses his gift, he gets
weaker. He uses his gift on Nathan to
cure him of his cold and of his Tourette’s Syndrome. As the world finds out about Collin, what
will he do with his gift? Will Nathan be
able to reconcile his past and move forward in life?
This was a touching story with plenty to discuss. I didn’t know much about Tourette’s Syndrome,
and I like that Richard Paul Evans put in the forward that he has Tourette’s
and the symptoms he describes are his own.
Nathan’s back story gets revealed by the end, but I still had a hard
time with his treatment of his mother. She
has dementia and is in a nursing home.
He hasn’t visited her in three years!!!
I know they didn’t have the best of relationships, but that just seemed
very cold to me. I did like the romance
between Nathan and Addison. The villains
were very one-dimensional, but fun to hate in this story. This book did make you ponder about what you
would do with such a gift and how it could be used for both good and evil.
Overall, The Gift is a touching and thought-provoking Christmas story
Book Source:
Kewaunee Public Library.
Thank-you!
New one for me. Thank you for the review.
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