Patience for Christmas by Grace Burrowes
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Advice columnist Patience Friendly’s relationship with her stubborn, overbearing publisher, Dougal MacHugh, is anything but cordial. Dougal challenges Patience to take on a rival columnist in a holiday advice-a-thon, and sparks fly clear up to the mistletoe hanging from every rafter. Will Patience follow the practical guidance of her head or the passionate advice of her heart?
- File Name:patience-for-christmas-by-grace-burrowes.epub
- Original Title:Patience for Christmas: A Holiday Novella
- Creator:Grace Burrowes
- Language:en
- Identifier:epubmerge-uid-1545059073
- Publisher:Grand Central Publishing
- Date:2018-12-18T00:00:00+00:00
- File Size:362.305 KB
Table of Content
- 1. Cover
- 2. Title
- 3. Copyright
- 4. Table of Contents
- 5. Dedication
- 6. Chapter One
- 7. Chapter Two
- 8. Chapter Three
- 9. Chapter Four
- 10. Chapter Five
- 11. Chapter Six
- 12. Chapter Seven
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Patience for Christmas was about Miss Patience Friendly, advice columnist for McHugh and Sons Publishing Company, and Mr. Dougal P. McHugh, owner, and publisher of McHugh and Sons Publishing Company. Patience had been an advice columnist for three years, working closely with Dougal, her publisher. Several months before, another advice columnist, a man going by the name of Professor D. Pennypacker, had taken it upon himself to begin criticizing Patience's advice in his column and then offering his own in rebuttal. As Christmas approached, Dougal informed Patience that the professor had devised a scheme to take advantage of the upcoming holiday and thereby garner more readers and, in the process, more money. The competing columnist planned to do a column for the twelve consecutive days before Christmas so that no one went without holiday advice during the festive season. Dougal wanted Patience to do the same, thus trumping the professor before he could get his foot in the door. There was a lot of deceit in this story, from both parties, that did not bode well for either of them. While they had known each other for three years, Patience hadn't really liked Dougal, while he had lustful thoughts and dreams about her. If she knew the truth behind some of his schemes, she might not take too kindly to them. While Patience agreed to write advice for the same twelve days in a row as her competitor in the hopes of beating him at his own game, somehow Professor Pennypacker was either one step ahead of her or he was right on target with her every move, which was suspicious to her. She thought there might be a mole at the publishing house that was telling tales to the professor in order to sink her column. While this story was different, it did not sit well as a romance novel. First, the romance, if it could be called that, was definitely not apparent...not even simmering. The two main characters argue more than they got along, which really didn't provide much encouragement for someone to like another person, let alone actually fall in love with them. The novel lacked integrity and maturity in its characters. While Patience had been hurt in her youth, she had overcome it quite admirably. She even had a level head on her shoulders in order to have survived the scandal of ten years before. But when she had shared that with Dougal, he either didn't care what had happened, or he just brushed it aside and didn't think that what she had endured then had anything to do with the lies he was telling her. The book definitely did not earn a five-star rating, unfortunately, for I like Grace Burrows for the most part. But this book did not do her justice and was, in my honest opinion, a sad holiday offering that should have been left on the shelf to gather dust rather than being published.