Welcome to the blog tour & giveaway for The Ornament Keeper by Eva Marie Everson, hosted by JustRead Publicity Tours!
ABOUT THE BOOK
Title: The Ornament Keeper
Author: Eva Marie Everson
Publisher: New Hope Publishers
Release Date: September 24, 2018
Genre: Contemporary Fiction, Holiday
Award-winning author Eva Marie Everson wraps up a Christmas story of hope, love, and forgiveness just in time for the holidays.
The Ornament Keeper, a contemporary Christmas novella, features Felicia and Jackson Morgan who are spending their first Christmas apart after twenty years of marriage. But a lifetime of gifted ornaments helps Felicia piece together the story of their marriage and the one mistake of unforgiveness she made before they said, “I do.”
Can these memory-filled ornaments reunite this family before Christmas? Only time will tell.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eva Marie Everson is a multiple-award winning author and speaker who hails from the picturesque Southern town of Sylvania, Georgia. She is president of Word Weavers International, director of Florida Christian Writers Conference, Managing Editor at Firefly Southern Fiction, and enjoys coaching new authors through her company, Pen in Hand. She is an avid photographer who enjoys turning her photos into inspiring memes for you to share (with proper attribution). Eva Marie and her husband make their home in Central Florida. They are the parents of three fabulous children who have blessed them with the world’s greatest grandchildren.
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MY IMPRESSIONS:
Small town Georgia is the setting of the novella, The Ornament Keeper by Eva Marie Everson. A Christmas gift for the reader, this book is a look into what can go wrong in a marriage. But there’s plenty of good among the hurt feelings, unforgiveness, missteps, and misunderstandings. Short in length, The Ornament Keeper is long on excellent writing, engaging characters, and a message of reconciliation. This one is a good choice for holiday reading.
The opening pages of The Ornament Keeper reveal a family in crisis. The problems between Leesha and her husband Jackson affect not just them, but their three children. As Christmas approaches, Leesha must confront her true feelings regarding her husband, their marriage of convenience, and her feelings about God. I love that the story was told in Leesha’s first person voice. Although her bias colors the reader’s view of events, she admits past mistakes and skewed perspectives. Conversations between her and her family, husband, and friends give the reader a broader perspective on what is really happening within the marriage. The author uses Christmas ornaments as a springboard for past memories, sweet and bittersweet, allowing the reader to get a fuller view of the life that Leesha and Jackson have lived. Themes include lost/denied dreams and past regrets. The struggles the characters face resonated with me. There are always things we wished we had done differently or better.
The Ornament Keeper was a bit more serious than most Christmas novellas, but I liked that. I became involved in the intricate tale and was surprised to find I finished so quickly — it was a wonderful way to pass a lazy Sunday afternoon.
Recommended.
Audience: adults.
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(Thanks to JustRead Book Tours for a complimentary copy. All opinions expressed are mine alone.)
TOUR GIVEAWAY
(1) winner will receive:
- a print copy of The Ornament Keeper, and
- an ornament handpicked by the author
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Each fall I select several Christmas novels to read leading up to the holiday. As I read them, the anticipation of the holiday grows; during the holiday itself, I’m usually too busy to do much reading. I’ll look forward to reading this novel, which releases on my birthday. So, it will make a great birthday present for me. Thanks for offering it in a giveaway!
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The Ornament Keeper is more than a sweet Christmas novella! Win a copy here.
I enjoy reading Christmas stories, and I have enjoyed many of Eva’s books, so this sounds like a win/win.