Reviewed by Kat
TITLE: Christmas Wishes
AUTHOR: Shaye Evans
PUBLISHER: Kiss and Tell Publishing
LENGTH: 87 pages
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This life is new to Harper…
When you’re rejected from home, where do you go?
With a graze on his cheek, the answer was simple—to the hospital. But little did Harper realize that his trip to the Emergency Room would set in motion for his Christmas wishes to come true.
REVIEW:
I have been so thrilled with these sweet Christmas/Advent/Holidays novellas.
Although this is a story that needs to be told, it’s not sweet or jolly. It is, unfortunately, a tale that happens way to often in homes. Boy realizes he is gay. Boy holds in his dark secret because his father (mother is dead) is deeply religious and being gay is a sin and an abomination. Boy can’t hold his secret in any longer. Boy tells dad and is literally forced out of his home that very moment, in the ice and snow, with only the clothes on his back and the door smacking his face.
What surprised me the absolute most was that his neighbors, that he had grown up around his entire life, also turned their backs on him and literally left him in the cold to freeze, two nights before Christmas. Where was their “Christian” hospitality and upbringing? To turn your back on a teenager in need was horrible and unforgivable! I think this book struck a nerve because I saw this happen to teens from my school I taught in, abandoned to couch surf at their friend’s homes, after they were brave enough to come out to their parents.
I did love how the story resolved with the reunion of old friends and the surprise ending was fabulous. Not a sweet story but a happy ending and a book that should be read.
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