Review: Secret Santa by Robert Tate Miller and Beth Polson
She’s determined to discover and expose the identity of a benevolent stranger.
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Contemporary Fiction | Small-Town Fiction | Novella
Secret Santa by Robert Tate Miller and Beth Polson
Description
Indianapolis Sentinel reporter Rebecca Chandler has just been dumped by her boyfriend. Tired of covering the usual seasonal fluff—and in no mood for warmth and sincerity—she reluctantly accepts her editor’s assignment to travel to small-town Hamden. There she’ll cover the story of a benevolent stranger who appears mysteriously every Christmas Eve to bestow a generous gift on someone less fortunate.
My Thoughts
Yup! Maybe aside from its lack of a strong emphasis on romance (not a downside, in my book), this short Christmas novel is pretty much what you’d expect its Christmas-TV-movie material to be.
Humor, Heart, and Rediscovery
Here we have a bundle of humor and a gradual, heartwarming change of heart. What this story doesn’t have in surprises, it makes up for in its “curl up on a cozy couch with a hot cup of cocoa” feel—along with a wonderful climax and conclusion.
The stuff that turning a frown upside-down and rediscovering the spirit of Christmas is made of.
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