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Glad Tidings: Here Comes Trouble\There's Something About Christmas | 
 enlarge | Author: Debbie Macomber
Publisher: Mira
Category: Book
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Rating:  6 reviews
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 480
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 6.5 x 4.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0778323552
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780778323556
Publication Date: November 1, 2006
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This is a time for families, for togetherness, for memories. On Christmas Eve, Maryanne and Nolan Adams tell their kids the story they most want to hear?how Mom and Dad met and fell in love. It all started when they were reporters on rival Seattle papers…and next thing you know, Here Comes Trouble! Christmas is also a time for…fruitcake. Rookie reporter Emma Collins hates fruitcake; for that matter, she hates Christmas, too. When three Washington State women are finalists in a national fruitcake contest, the story is assigned to her. That's bad enough. It gets worse when she has to fly in a small plane (scary!) with a smart-aleck pilot named Oliver Hamilton (sexy!) and his scruffy dog (cute!). In the end she meets three wise women, falls in love and learns There's Something About Christmas.
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 I didn't like either hero November 13, 2007
Gemma (Alberta, Canada)
From the back cover:
Christmas news! Read all about it!
This is a time for families, for togetherness, for memories. On Christmas Eve, Maryanne and Nolan Adams tell their kids the story they most want to hear--how Mom and Dad met and fell in love. It all started when they were reporters on rival Seattle papers...and next thing you know, Here Comes Trouble!
Christmas is also a time for...fruitcake. Rookie reporter Emma Collins hates fruitcake; for that matter, she hates Christmas, too. When three Washington State women are finalists in a national fruitcake contest, the story is assigned to her. That's bad enough. It gets worse when she has to fly in a small plane (scary!) with a smart-aleck pilot named Oliver Hamilton (sexy!) and his scruffy dog (cute!). In the end she meets three wise women, falls in love and learns There's Something About Christmas.
And my review:
I never know what to expect from Debbie Macomber. I've absolutely loved some of her stories (her "angel" series of Shirley, Goodness and Mercy are on my keeper shelf) and hated others.
Unfortunately, I didn't like either of these stories. The problem was with the heros. In HERE COMES TROUBLE! I thought that the hero was really mean to the heroine. Not in a cute bantering "schoolyard" kind of way, but in just a really underhanded "I've decided that I hate you because you're rich and must be a spoiled brat" way. I like to see sparring between a hero and heroine, but he was such a jerk, and she was so reactive (granted, she had reason to be, but she was still a bit too sensitive) that I got too annoyed to finish the story.
I liked the beginning of THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT CHRISTMAS. Macomber's trademark humor shows, and the story has a nice flow to it. However, the hero's constant "you want me" comments really got under my skin. Especially when the heroine hadn't shown any kind of interest in him, and the next thing you know, he's spouting stuff like, "I know what we could do for a couple of hours" (meaning sex, of course), "just can't keep your hands off me," because she got irritated with him twirling his fork and put her hand on his to stop him, and finally "you want me." Ugh! I guess that's supposed to be sexy, but it just come across as arrogant and sleazy. I've got absolutely zero interest in guys who are full of themselves.
For an enjoyable Christmas romance by Macomber, I much preferred The Christmas Basket, or her "angel" series.
 Football Practice reading August 25, 2007
Donna R. Siegfried (Steilacoom, Washington United States)
I found this book to be a book that I have not wanted to put down.
The plots of each story reflected real live to me since I live in
Pudget Sound area .
 A warm collection of stories to inspire holiday spirit July 2, 2007
Donna K. (Long Island, NY)
There's Something About Christmas: It was heartwarming to read about a lonely woman who hasn't "done Christmas" since her mother passed away and how she grows to discover the magic and spirit of Christmas again. The metaphors for life that were unveiled in the fruitcake recipes through the interviews with their creaters where highgly very meaningful. However, as far as the romance goes, Oliver came across as a domineering and shallow charmer, and it's hard to imagine that Emma falls in love with him. His attempts at romance didn't seem very sincere to me, and it wasn't until the very end that he seemed to a very late (ans still rather unconvincing) conversion into someone more likeable and worthy of Emma. The romance between secondary characters, Phoebe and Walt, had the potential to add depth and interest to the story, which fell short by Walt's desire to keep it a secret. To be honest, while I liked Emma a lot, and I enjoyed the holiday message the author conveyed, I was surprised that this story was written in 2005 because it read more like the less-polished books (interactions and dialogues) from very early in her career.
Here Comes Trouble: I struggled to finish this story - it's hard to believe it was written by Debbie Macomber because it was not her usual breezy and delightful style. The characters grated on my nerves with the hostile way they interacted with each other. I just wanted to shake some sense into both of them - Nolan for his arrogance and Maryanne for being so reactive. Although it began on Christmas Eve, this story was presented as a couple reflecting on their courtship and really didn't have much to do with Christmas at all. Where was the cheerful or touching holiday spirit?
How do you spell "pajamas?" January 30, 2007
Carolyn Rowe Hill (Ann Arbor, Michigan)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read several of Debbie Macomber's books and enjoyed them, and I liked the first story in this book (There's Something about Christmas), perhaps mostly because I come from a flying family. The second one (Here Comes Trouble), I almost didn't finish. If Nolan Adams had grabbed Maryanne Simpson one more time around the waist, put his mouth over hers, kissed her and then left, it was going to be over for me.
Both stories were very formulaic as is the way of things with these books, but they were also very predictable. I also have trouble (spoiler!) when in the end the guy, who is poor to start with, ends up being rich so that the girl who came from a wealthy family will still get to live a life of luxury as the wife of a successful novelist. Oh, she has her own talents, but their financial struggles are over by the end of the story (end spoiler). For whatever reason, I just didn't connect with this story.
In TSAC, Oliver Hamilton is a good pilot, so things will go well with him in the Seattle area with his new air freight business. Emma Collins is working her way up the journalist ladder at the Puyallup Examiner and is new to the area. We get a glimpse of her talent in the beginnings of three articles she's writing for the paper having to do with a fruitcake contest. I did like the fruitcake aspect of the story and plan to try each one of them. With the three very different kinds of fruitcake, there's something for everyone. I found the romantic tension to be strong in TSAC, but not so strong (or even believable) in HCT.
Is the word pajamas spelled differently (pyjamas) in the Northeast? Just wondering.
Carolyn Rowe Hill
 Heartwarming November 22, 2006
Plurabelle (Egg Harbor Twp, NJ United States)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
"Glad Tidings" is my first taste of Debbie Macomber's work, and it definitely won't be my last. The two holiday themed stories included here, are both extremely enjoyable. Macomber's writing style, is no-frills and the romance is decidedly G Rated. But that isn't a bad thing. With only one exception (which i will get to in a moment), Macomber makes you care about these characters, and the over-done, falseness that seems to hamper many modern romance novels, is not present here.
Of the two stories, i will say, i much prefered the first, "There's Something About Christmas". A light-hearted, funny, genuinely sweet story of rookie reporter Emma & cocky pilot Oliver, who deal with fear of flying, sneezing dogs,& fruitcake.
The second story, "Here Comes Trouble" really only has a passing reference to Christmas, and while i really enjoyed it as well, i felt it was lacking some of the charm of the first. My main problem was with the character of Nolan. He was just such a grouchy, gruff, stubburn pain in the butt, that i found it hard to believe that the plucky Maryanne would not only fall for him, but basically beg him to love her, the way she did. My reservations regarding this point, is the only reason i'm not giving the book 5 stars.
All in all though, "Glad Tidings" was an enjoyable experience, and i can't wait to dive into Macomber's other work.
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