Celebration of Light by M.A. Abraham – a review

Celebration of Light is a cute and fun Christmas short story by M.A. Abraham. This follows Abraham’s latest book Kings Champion, which is part of her Elven Chronicles series.   Below is the official description, followed by my review.

Description:
Haylo has grown up in the human world where each year they celebrate the Christmas season. There is; however, no Christmas in the Elven world. Instead, the Elven females have decided to take the idea and change it into something for their own people. They are not about to tell their Life Mates and sweet hearts though. Keeping their plans secret is proving to be too much fun. The Elven male population can tell something is being plotted. Gabriel is sure of it, Eden is keeping secrets and it doesn’t take them long to figure out what is going on. Sevil confirms it. Watch how the season comes together, the planning, the games, the craftiness practiced, all in the name of bringing the Elves together for the Celebration of Light.

Review:

Having read the entire Elven Chronicles series thus far, I thought this would be a perfect read, as we all seem to be getting into the Christmas mood.  M.A. Abraham does not disappoint.  It was fun to meet up with all characters we have come to love from this series, and they were all there.  

Winter is here, end of year is coming, and we learn early that the men suspect their wives of plotting something, and they try everything to find out what they are up to.  From Gabriel, to Daroth, to Marious, Larek, they all try to get their lifemates to slip, to no avail.  The ladies are working together and they know their mates are trying to discover what they are planning. 

What are they planning?  Since Haylo grew up in the human world, she talked about how much fun Christmas was for children and for adults.  But the Elven world does not celebrate anything like this.  The ladies figure the men would stop them, so they plot to create a festivity for all, similar to the human Christmas but different, created more for the Elves.  They plot all the things they have to do:  the gifts, the food, the baking, the decorations.  Eventually the men do find out, through Sevil’s sneakiness.

But this is fun story, and they decide to help their mates, and they too go out to buy gifts.  It was fun as I said to see them together, to watch their camaraderie, the closeness of the ladies.  Rather then mention a spoiler, if you have not read Kings Champion, the ladies do have something else in common. 

There was one section that caused some grief, endangering one of them, but in any
Christmas story, all should and does turn out well.  They all come together in a Celebration of Light.   M.A. Abraham allows us to share some holiday fun time with her heroes and heroines.  This is a fun short story, in the Christmas spirit and a fast read. 

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Reviewed by Barb

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