Christmas in Cedar Cove Book Review

This book took forever to get into the library from the reserve system....okay, not forever but at least a week and I wanted to read it!!  Do you ever reserve books at the library?  I love it and it is much better then searching the shelves to find out that the book you want is not there.  It is also helpful because I keep a notebook of the authors that I want to read and I find that if I need the notebook while I am at the library it is at home :)  Christmas in Cedar Cove: 5-B Poppy Lane\A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber was the next book on my list to read because it seems that it comes between all of the books in the series that I am currently reading about Cedar Cove.

The first story is 5B Poppy Lane which is about Helen Shelton and her only granddaughter Ruth.  Helen is friends with Charlotte Rhodes so there are a few times that she pops up in the story like at the beginning so that they can spend some time together before Helen's granddaughter arrives to spend the holiday with her.  The rest of the story is a flash back on how Ruth and Paul fell in love.  The story of how they fell in love was full of interesting twists and turns and makes her grandmother re-tell the story of her youth and her first husband.  I hope that you pick up the book to find out more details because it is an amazing story.

The second story is a Cedar Cove Christmas.  I read this previously in the month and thought that it was the same book but I wasn't sure so I had to get this one just to make sure.  It was released with a new introduction in this book which was really interesting to read even though I had already read the story because it gives you a little more insight into what happens after the story is over instead of guessing.  I think that it added an interesting twist to the already great story.  Check out my whole review here.

I loved the books because it included two shorter stories that Debbie Macomber wrote about Christmas.  It is always good to read about Christmas because I love that time of year.  I hope that you pick it up at your local library or bookstore to see what you think.  Even if you haven't read the rest of the series, the stories in this book are great and stand alone as great holiday cheer!!  Doesn't a Christmas book in September seem a little early?  Well, it is never too early to get in the Christmas Spirit!!