Maggie Walter was not expecting her world to fall apart right before the holidays. But the morning she received a phone call from a reporter asking about her husband's arrest Maggie's world fell apart. Her husband, Clive, was a successful politician in Salt Lake City when he was arrested for bigamy. He has a whole other family in Colorado. Maggie is devastated and goes into hiding. After coffee with her best friend, Maggie decides to get a Christmas tree, where she meets Andrew. There is something about Andrew that immediately puts Maggie at ease. She feels safe and protected with him. He makes her forget all about her deceitful husband. So much so, that when Andrew asks her to go away with him to Cabo, she goes without a second thought. The trip is romantically perfect and everything she could ever imagine. But then she finds something that leads her to believe that Andrew has not been honest with her about some very important things. What else has he been lying to her about?
Richard Paul Evans is an author who has become synonymous with Christmas literature. I have really enjoyed his books in the past, but this time I found myself rolling my eyes. A lot. Two major things, Maggie went away to Cabo with Andrew after only knowing him a week or so. Seriously. AND when they went, Andrew asked Maggie if she wanted him to hold onto her passport for "safekeeping," AND SHE LET HIM. Girl, don't be stupid. And frankly, that kind of fiction is reckless. No woman should EVER travel to a foreign country with a man she just met and then let him KEEP her passport. UGH. Everything turned out okay, of course, because it is FICTION. #girlsdontbestupid. Like I said, I generally enjoy his Christmas novels, but this one didn't give me the warm fuzzies, instead, it made my finely tuned creeper-radar to go off.
Bottom line- I would avoid The Noel Stranger and maybe seek out another novel from Richard Paul Evans' backlist. One that doesn't come with a future #MeToo story.
Details:
- The Noel Stranger by Richard Paul Evans
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- Pages: 320
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster
- Publication Date: 11/6/2018
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