6/10/2023 0 Comments Christmas Angel by Eli EastonThe angel is carved in this book, by one of the protagonists, and that angel is inspired by a visitation that happens to him when the book opens and he’s contemplating suicide. I’d read some of the other stories, the ones set closer to the present day, and enjoyed them enough to want to see the beginning. The reason I picked this one up was because it begins a series of interrelated but standalone books that span many years and all feature, at some point, a carved Christmas angel. Miggles.”)Īnother smaller caveat is more to do with the historical setting, and the fallout thereof. So, all in all, I ended up having to kind of get “past” the performer, which made it harder to sink into the story from an author of holiday novellas I’ve really enjoyed in the past (I often do a yearly re-listen to “Blame it on the Mistletoe” and “Merry Christmas, Mr. And another, there were quite a few mispronunciations: blackguard, regaled, some British-isms. He was excruciatingly slow at normal speed. For one, I had to speed up the playback to x1.5 to make the reader’s incredibly slow pace hit a natural cadence. I did end up enjoying “The Christmas Angel,” but it’s a rare “I’d suggest reading it, not listening to it” from me. Before I start, I feel like I need to add a caveat about this day because of some issues I had with the format.
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