Mr. Miracle: A Christmas Novel by Debbie Macomber – a Review

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Description:
Harry Mills is a guardian angel on a mission: help twenty-four-year-old Addie Folsom get her life back on track—and, if the right moment strikes, help her find love. Posing as a teacher at a local college in Tacoma, Washington, Harry is up to the task, but not even he can predict the surprises that lay in store.

After trying to make it on her own, Addie has returned home to Tacoma for the holidays, but this time she plans to stay for good, enrolling in the local community college to earn her degree. What she doesn’t plan to do is run into Erich Simmons.

Addie and her next-door neighbor, Erich, are like night and day. Growing up, he was popular and outgoing while she was rebellious and headstrong, and he never missed an opportunity to tease her. Now she intends to avoid him entirely, yet when they’re suddenly forced to spend Christmas together, Addie braces for trouble.

Perhaps it’s the spirit of the season or the magic of mistletoe, but Addie and Erich soon find they have more in common than they thought—and that two people who seem so wrong for each other may actually be just right. With a little prompting from a certain angelic teacher, the two are in for a holiday miracle they’ll never forget.

Review:

Mr. Miracle by Debbie Macomber is another sweet Christmas story. In fact, this story will be made into a TV movie or series shortly. Mr. Miracle has a few leading characters, with the brunt of the story being about Addie and Erich. However, we meet Harry Mills right from the start, and he is an angel sent to help Addie and Erich find each other. This is Harry’s first mission, and he is on probation. He meets his senior angel, who though very experienced, looks very young, as opposed to Harry’s middle age appearance. At first Harry is over confident… how hard is it to deal with humans on Earth. What follows are some very humorous and uncomfortable moments for Harry in his human body.

Addie comes home for Christmas after her father’s death, and though she has been away for many years, she plans to stay to re-build her life again. She signs up for a class to get her high school diploma, and Harry is her teacher. Addie discovers her mother is planning on a two week cruise with her neighbor friend. Erich is the son of the neighbor, and he and Addie do not really like each other. When Erich has a car accident, suffering broken wrists, his mom plans to cancel the trip, which would mean Addie’s mom will also miss out. It is Harry who puts the seed in Addie’s mind to help her mother, and take care of Erich for two weeks. Neither one of them are happy about the arrangement, but they want their mothers to have fun. They are resigned to bear with each other, and Addie is determined to make something out of what she expects to be a lonely Christmas.

What follows is a sweet story about how slowly Addie and Erich become friends, and then realize that they have changed over the years, with their relationship taking a sweet turn. Erich came across as Scrooge, since he was laid up, and hated Christmas. But Addie was determined to prove him wrong. It is also a story of characters introduced in the school, that Addie befriends, which could be part of the television series.

The story between Addie and Erich was really sweet, but it was the situations that Harry would constantly find himself that made for much humor. I liked Celeste the other experienced angel. If you want a sweet Christmas read, Mr. Miracle would be a perfect book.

Reviewed by Barb

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