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theresaalan41 's review for:
Winter Street
by Elin Hilderbrand
Except for a partial cliff-hanger ending (some things are looking like a happy ending, other story lines are open ended, which I don’t appreciate), I enjoyed this novel about a man whose second marriage is failing and the challenges faced by his four adult children. I liked it because no one is perfect but no one is unlikable.
Kelley, the patriarch of the Quinn family, walks in on his wife literally kissing the man who has played Santa Claus at their inn every year for twelve years. His other children from his first wife are facing career or relationship challenges, and his youngest son is fighting in Afghanistan. His second wife has chosen the day before Christmas Eve to tell him she’s moving out. His first wife swoops in to help with the holidays because as a CBS news anchor, she knows things that are happening overseas before civilians do, even the civilian parents of their son who is serving.
Relationships are complex, and lots of families have complicated relationships because of second marriages and children from other relationships, and these complexities have a way of seeming even bigger around the holidays, so I appreciated that all these characters are introduced to us with pasts that have shaped them for better or worse. I’m not sure I loved this enough to read the next few books in this series, however.
Kelley, the patriarch of the Quinn family, walks in on his wife literally kissing the man who has played Santa Claus at their inn every year for twelve years. His other children from his first wife are facing career or relationship challenges, and his youngest son is fighting in Afghanistan. His second wife has chosen the day before Christmas Eve to tell him she’s moving out. His first wife swoops in to help with the holidays because as a CBS news anchor, she knows things that are happening overseas before civilians do, even the civilian parents of their son who is serving.
Relationships are complex, and lots of families have complicated relationships because of second marriages and children from other relationships, and these complexities have a way of seeming even bigger around the holidays, so I appreciated that all these characters are introduced to us with pasts that have shaped them for better or worse. I’m not sure I loved this enough to read the next few books in this series, however.