Christmas on Mimosa Lane A Seasons of the Heart Novel Book 1 edition by Anna DeStefano Literature Fiction eBooks
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Book 1 in the Seasons of The Heart Series, with recurring characters in the #1 Short Story, Here in My Heart, the heartwarming beginning to the Echoes of the Heart series!
Anna DeStefano presents a touching Christmas story about love, loss, and healing--and the joys of coming home.
A childhood spent on the streets leaves Mallory Phillips longing for a normal life and a perfect Christmas. Now an elementary school nurse in Chandlerville, Georgia, Mallory's dream to blend into the picturesque community isn't working out. She's once more living a loner's existence. Then an emotionally fragile seven-year-old appears in her living room in the middle of the night, and Mallory's isolated world is turned upside down.
This is Polly Lombard's first Christmas without her mother, and she won't utter a word to anyone--except Mallory. She believes Mallory holds the key to helping her father overcome his sadness. Despite Pete Lombard's lingering grief over his wife's death and concern for his daughter, his resistance to their mysterious neighbor crumbles as he spends more time with Mallory and falls for her amazing heart.
But when her past returns to haunt her, is Mallory strong enough to keep the Lombard family in her life? And can the spirit of Christmas heal these broken souls and bring them all the joyous, loving holiday they deserve?
Christmas on Mimosa Lane A Seasons of the Heart Novel Book 1 edition by Anna DeStefano Literature Fiction eBooks
I’m rating this book 4 stars not because I liked it, which I did not, but because I really think readers who typically do like these kinds of stories will really like it. This story was more emotional than I like, dealing with death, homelessness, and mental illness. Frankly as a nurse I must confess that when I read I prefer to read uplifting humorous HEA stories. I see a lot of sad things and need to laugh and lose myself in fun stories. This story was a downer for me. But I can appreciate that the story was well written and good character development.Product details
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Christmas on Mimosa Lane A Seasons of the Heart Novel Book 1 edition by Anna DeStefano Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
I am not a fan of the Sad Christmas stories, but this one, for me, was exactly the right story at the right time in my life. I bought this thinking I needed a really happy, uplifting christmas tale to make the realty of my life easier during this Christmas Season.
Instead, I found that what I really needed was to cry, to see others were much worse off than I. This is definitely not the feel good happy christmas that the majority of us think we are creating each holiday, but it is the one that most of us find at the end of all of our frenzied preparations. It is one unlike what most of us live.
This is a story of heartbreak, loss, desolation and still somehow in all of the loss there is this glimmer or hope and of the human spirit struggling to master everything negative in our world. Is also a story of tremendous love and the realty of the what a life on the streets might be like for a child.
While it is not the usual Christmas fare, for some of us who are struggling with a loved one, who, no longer remembers us or any of the wonderful Christmas's they created for their loved one's; it is a story of triumph, love, hope and the memory of the times when things were better than they are now.
It is a story for everyone to read and analyse and then to count their blessings what ever they might be.
Read, Cry, Heal and Remember the GOOD TIMES.
I think the author did a fantastic job with the characters and depth of feelings with this book, especially for the characters Mallory, Pete and Polly. Each of these individuals have experienced traumas and I love how Mallory is helping Polly and Pete heal from their loss. I also loved how Pete and Polly are helping Mallory heal from her troubled past as well. I thought the writing was superb. I would have given this story five stars, but the last few chapters disappointed me tremendously and made it come down to a four. In the last few chapters, Mallory comes face to face with her mother who has been living on the streets as a homeless person for over twenty years. It was really disheartening to see the self-destruction Mallory inflicts. Mallory is strong and self-sufficient. She has a background in social work and grief counseling. She understands that her mother is mentally ill. I would have much rather preferred to see Mallory stand up for herself and acknowledge that her mother has always been the problem, not her. I would also have liked to see Mallory decide on her own that she deserved happiness and wasn't going to let her mother ruin her chance at happiness. Instead, she ends up abandoning a child and man she has come to love, withdrawing her love just like her mother did so long ago. After the author drops this emotional bombshell, the author tells us what happens during the week instead of showing us how these characters are feeling. I feel the last chapter was a bit rushed with the author's resolution for the characters feeling a little too forced. Overall, this isn't your typical christmas story, but I still think it was a great story.
While some reviewers here have described this book as being totally sad and depressing, I'd have to agree with them to a point. But...it is also a book mainly about three people dealing with their own tragedies, and how they end up banning together, in order to find a way to heal each others broken souls.
First there's Mallory. Mallory's mother had suffered from schizophrenia all of her young life. When she was only a teenager of barely at the ripe age of sixteen, she found herself pregnant and couldn't even remember who the father of her baby was. After the babies birth, she ended up being hospitalized for this condition, while her parents raised her child. Six years later she had escaped when the authorities weren't looking and headed back home. Of course her parents knew they had to call the authorities to come and take her back to the hospital, because she still wasn't acting right. BUT...before they had a chance to do that, Mallory & her mother had devised a plan to run away so they could stay together. They basically only took what could fit into two small plastic grocery bags, and the only other things they had were clothes they had on their backs that day. At first Mallory felt she was on a wild exciting adventure, but as the days to into weeks, and the weeks turn into months and then eventually it turned into years on the road Mallory started to wonder if they'd made a mistake by running away from her Gramm's house. With each week that passed... Mallory became more and more like the adult. She and her mother were always cold, hungry, dirty, and at times they had become very sick. Mallory was the one that stole medicine and food to help make them feel better. Most of the time her mother would refuse to eat. Her mother preferred to drink booze to get by instead. take any of it. After being on the run for almost six years now, one night while they were at a shelter, her mother had become so sick she had almost lost her life. That's when Mallory had went against her mother's wishes for the first time in her life. When she couldn't wake her mother that night, she had decided it was time to get help.
Even though she had saved her mother with the decisions she had made that night, her mother never forgave her. Here it is now fifteen years later, her grandparents are both gone now and she hasn't seen her mother in over fifteen years. She had become a social worker first, and then worked her way through nursing school. She's bought a house and is trying to live her life as best as she can. She works as a school nurse during the week, and volunteers at a homeless center on the weekends, with hopes that one day that she'll be able see her mother once again.
Then there's six year old Polly Lombard. She lost her sweet, loving, and very caring mother six months ago. Since that day....she has all but locked herself away from everything and everyone, including her own father. She won't talk to anyone, she doesn't even eat or sleep anymore either. She used to cry all the time, but now she's acts just like a hollow shell of the sweet child she'd once been. She feels so torn apart inside, because doesn't want to forget her mother, but remembering hurts so bad and she has no idea how to make that hurt go away.
Peter Lombard is worried about his daughter, but he has no clue how to help her get through the pain she feels, especially when he's going through his own pain from the loss of soul mate too. He has also shut out all of his family, and all of their close friends, ever since the death of his wife. He and his daughter just seem to go through the day to day life, doing the best that they can. Both of them feeling so lost and alone, with no idea of how they can fix it or make it better again.
That is, until Polly wanders out her own house at two o'clock in the morning, and ends up at their neighbors house. Polly had spotted a huge Christmas tree that was lit in the huge window of their neighbors house from her bedroom window one night. That Christmas Tree just happened to belong to Mallory Philips, her school nurse at the time. This is where everything starts to change for everyone involved.
This book might have been sad and depressing, but its also a book about hope and healing too. What I think hit home for me the most, is that there are real live situations, just like this one....that's going on in the world today. And while people seem to reach out and help those less fortunate during the holiday seasons, these people could use a friend all year long.
Would I recommend this book? Yes!!!!!!
I’m rating this book 4 stars not because I liked it, which I did not, but because I really think readers who typically do like these kinds of stories will really like it. This story was more emotional than I like, dealing with death, homelessness, and mental illness. Frankly as a nurse I must confess that when I read I prefer to read uplifting humorous HEA stories. I see a lot of sad things and need to laugh and lose myself in fun stories. This story was a downer for me. But I can appreciate that the story was well written and good character development.
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