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A review by saarahnina
A Christmas Miracle by Richard Christian
1.0
Too predictable
The story was nothing new, a couple of chapters long, and the ending was expected. All these words I've said before with other novels of this kind. I just thought this would be better since it was longer. But the actual length was because the novel had been translated into several other languages.
Now for the characters: Warren was just your average pious man, in my eyes he was far too good to be true.
T. W was the loving brother of Josephine.
Hugh A.D was someone who encountered a small incident with Josephine, she failed to fulfil a promise she had made to him and so he came after her.
Finally, Josephine: the woman with a troubled past but a loving heart.
I also wish to say that parts of this book were simply stupid:
Josephine is running from a man who has told her he plans to kill her, in the simplest of ways possible. But when he claims he has broken his leg, she goes off to help him. In spite of the fact that it could just have been a farce. Even if it was real, any sane person would use it to their advantage and out run the feeble man. I suppose this was done deliberately to present the Christian way of thinking, so I will not go into it.
Another stupid instance was when Warren gave all the possessions in his safe- it contained thousands as well as a bunch of valuable items- to the man who had plans to kill his wife, a woman he had known for a good couple of months. A woman who had failed to trust him enough to share with him, the details of her troubled past. This effectively displays Christian love, unconditional love and sacrifice and how you should not allow yourself to become materialistic. But also promotes an ideal which is rare and perfect- something we, as humans, strive to achieve. In other words, his action was irrational and unnecessary. The latter, because there was no indication that Hugh had a gun or any weapon, therefore there was no real threat. If the author planned to paint love as irrational, I partially understand.
I just wish, we as readers, were able to gain an insight into the true nature of the characters, and I wished there were more characters. I'd also have liked to know how their relation developed, I feel this was overlooked.
I feel I have written enough.
The story was nothing new, a couple of chapters long, and the ending was expected. All these words I've said before with other novels of this kind. I just thought this would be better since it was longer. But the actual length was because the novel had been translated into several other languages.
Now for the characters: Warren was just your average pious man, in my eyes he was far too good to be true.
T. W was the loving brother of Josephine.
Hugh A.D was someone who encountered a small incident with Josephine, she failed to fulfil a promise she had made to him and so he came after her.
Finally, Josephine: the woman with a troubled past but a loving heart.
I also wish to say that parts of this book were simply stupid:
Josephine is running from a man who has told her he plans to kill her, in the simplest of ways possible. But when he claims he has broken his leg, she goes off to help him. In spite of the fact that it could just have been a farce. Even if it was real, any sane person would use it to their advantage and out run the feeble man. I suppose this was done deliberately to present the Christian way of thinking, so I will not go into it.
Another stupid instance was when Warren gave all the possessions in his safe- it contained thousands as well as a bunch of valuable items- to the man who had plans to kill his wife, a woman he had known for a good couple of months. A woman who had failed to trust him enough to share with him, the details of her troubled past. This effectively displays Christian love, unconditional love and sacrifice and how you should not allow yourself to become materialistic. But also promotes an ideal which is rare and perfect- something we, as humans, strive to achieve. In other words, his action was irrational and unnecessary. The latter, because there was no indication that Hugh had a gun or any weapon, therefore there was no real threat. If the author planned to paint love as irrational, I partially understand.
I just wish, we as readers, were able to gain an insight into the true nature of the characters, and I wished there were more characters. I'd also have liked to know how their relation developed, I feel this was overlooked.
I feel I have written enough.