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3.89 AVERAGE


I enjoyed each story, the only thing is sometimes they seemed fast pace and not enough time to form a genuine relationship. But I was still able to get into each of the girl's story, my favourite was Laura and Royce. I loved the dynamic between the couple and the banter exchanged between the two. Overall, I enjoyed the book and the different couples' banter and how each story seemed to relate to the prior generation's stories (their parents).

I am SUPER LOVING this series! 😄 I think it might be one of my top 3 favorite Nora Roberts' series. 😄😍😄

3 great books in 1. About 3 strong women, cousins, who are "handled" or guided by their grandfather - the head of the family. He sends men their way, without them knowing at first and then they figure it out after they fall head over heals in love with the men. It all ends in love, marriage and babies!! Another great hit by NR!

Laura.

I loved Laura and Royce’s story. Royce installed a security system in the house she shares with her cousins. Handpicked by Daniel MacGregor; he leaves it up to fate. Both are not looking for relationships and are happy with the way their lives are going. Fate has a funny way of showing us that life has more to offer. I really enjoyed seeing Caine and Diana’s children in this story. The more I see of the family, the more I fall in love with them.

Gwen.

Gwen and Branson’s story was the most romantic Christmas story. Branson being a writer recruits Gwen’s help in learning the medical field for his next novel. Spending weeks together their story slowly develops. She’s not thrilled that it is orchestrated by Daniel MacGregor.

Julia.

Julia and Cullum finish off the book with their story. Cullum works as a contractor for her house. They fight like dogs and have for years. Both stubborn and driven, they work well together. Until they end up acting on the attraction. Daniel and Michael, plot well together.

Daniel MacGregor can’t help meddling in his children or grandchildren’s lives. If he didn’t, we wouldn’t have these sweet love stories. I love seeing the generations of MacGregors and what happened to their lives. I am so loving this series.

Since there are three stories in this one you have to accept that they couples will fall in love quickly, but I love them so much! It's fun to watch the children of Daniel MacGregor as parents while their own children are falling in love!

Daniel MacGregor yearns for great-grandchildren before he passes away, but his granddaughters are taking far too long to settle down. So what does he do? Begin meddling, of course! However, Laura, Gwen and Julia aren’t going to make it easy for him. Can Daniel do it – and not suffer their raging wraths?

I really, really enjoyed this book. Well, the three novellas it included (yes, there are three separate stories within this novel). So I’ll work in chronological order.

First up was Laura’s story. Now, she was my favourite character. Perfectly feisty, witty and hilarious, I really enjoyed reading about her and was sad when her story ended. I think hers should have started first, to be honest; in my opinion, Gwen and Julia didn’t quite live up to her. Her story, concerning a certain Royce, was romantic even though they initially, of course, didn’t like each other, and they had plenty of hurdles from Laura’s lawyer-ship and her parents going a bit nuts when they, er, caught them together, to the alarms going off and Royce being attacked with snowballs.

Second was Gwen, the doctor. Her relationship with the Irish novelist Branson was interesting, to say the least. Branson, originally there to do research on Dr Gwen’s ward, soon began to like her more than he perhaps should. I thought he was the perfect man and kinda fell in love with him a little. I mean, how more romantic can you get? Besides his rants about writing and just in general were pretty cool, and he seemed to live to wind Gwen up. However, I thought Gwen was a bit cruel to him and strung him along a bit.

Lastly was Julia, and her beau Cullum. Cullum and Julia had the perfect sparky relationship everyone wants, and her uncertainness in the relationship contrasted brilliantly with her otherwise collected persona. Their relationship was hot and sexy but then turned out to be more romantic, if a little high-school-ly with them fighting over who said the three little words first.

I really liked Roberts’ writing style; fast paced and witty, and the characters were unique and had their own relationships but seemed to fit together like a very large MacGregor jigsaw puzzle. However, I thought that the relationships would have been better if they had been intertwined rather than written in separate time frames. And they all finished, stereotypically, at Christmas time, although I kind of already knew that considering the ‘Christmas Fairytales’ title and the romance genre! But, I really adored Daniel MacGregor as a separate character and his relationship with his wife, so I guess that helped me a lot; and the MacGregor Christmas lunches are clearly an affair to behold!

I would recommend this read to those who like fluffy Christmas-y romances, although this does contain some steamy sex scenes, so beware of that if that’s the type of stuff you’d rather avoid. A light-hearted read!