Does your community do
anything special for the Christmas season?
We have our Christmas lights parade this upcoming Friday night and a
Christkindlmart that takes place downtown on Friday and Saturday. It’s the start of the Christmas season for
me.
Henry Adams, Kansas is
the setting for A Christmas to Remember.
Bernadine Brown and Mal July are preparing for their Christmas wedding,
but it’s not the only thing that is going on in this busy small town. As the town prepares to celebrate Christmas, many
townspeople explore the relationships in their lives.
This is the eleventh book
of the “Blessings” series and the first one that I have read. This was a hard book to read as a standalone
novel. There were a lot of characters,
and I had a hard time keeping track of who they were. I think if I had started this series at the
beginning and really knew the characters, I would have enjoyed the novel even
more. I liked the characters and their
stories. I especially loved Reverand Paula
Grant and her sage wisdom, and Thornton Webb, the new chef in town.
This was my first Beverly
Jenkins novel, but it won’t be my last.
I was also pleased to see she is a Michigan native. I am originally from Michigan. I enjoyed that her characters are African
American and that the setting, Henry Adams, is a historic black community in
Kansas. I think my next stop will be reading
the first book in this series, Bring on the Blessings.
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