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Texas Twins #6
Reunited for the Holidays
Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Brian Wallace and Belle Colby were married with two sets of twins—toddler boys and infant girls. Then the young family was torn apart. Each took a girl and boy and went their separate ways—never to see one another again. Brian is stunned to return home from a mission to find all the siblings reunited at their mother's Texas ranch. He has never forgotten Belle or how much he loved her. Will unanswered questions stand in the way of this family finding their long-awaited second chance?
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 2012
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Jillian Hart
192 books599 followersJillian Hart grew up on her family's homestead in Washington state, where she raised cattle, rode horses and scribbled stories in her spare time.
After earning her English degree from Whitman College, she worked in travel and advertising before selling her first novel.
When Jillian isn't working on her next story, she can be found puttering around her rose garden, curled up with a good book and spending quiet evenings at home with her family.
After earning her English degree from Whitman College, she worked in travel and advertising before selling her first novel.
When Jillian isn't working on her next story, she can be found puttering around her rose garden, curled up with a good book and spending quiet evenings at home with her family.
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December 8, 2016
I'm a sucker for Christmas stories and reunited lovers stories, so this one was a double whammy of liking for me. I really enjoyed Belle's journey to recovery after her riding accident, and Brian's attempts to be more honest about his feelings instead of bottling up his emotion and shutting himself away from others. Neither are perfect, and it was great to see them journey together and end up side by side.
I of course guessed Sadie's secret in the last book, and it was pleasant to get the end of her story as well.
I of course guessed Sadie's secret in the last book, and it was pleasant to get the end of her story as well.
May 4, 2020
I thought this was a fitting end to the series. I liked how both Brian and Belle had both forgiven each other for the things that went wrong when they were married previously, but needed to forgive themselves in order to truly move into the future God had in mind for them.
I had my suspicions about one part of the mystery behind the separation of the twins, but the reality was a bit different than I'd expected. It was nice to see some familiar faces in Grasslands get a happy ending as well.
3.5 stars
I had my suspicions about one part of the mystery behind the separation of the twins, but the reality was a bit different than I'd expected. It was nice to see some familiar faces in Grasslands get a happy ending as well.
3.5 stars
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December 27, 2014Miniseries: Texas Twins
Category: Inspirational Romance
Category: Inspirational Romance
March 26, 2022
Well, I made it thru the series. Gritting my teeth ALL the way thru this particular book, but... finished. Or as finished as I'm going to be, anyhow.
NOTE TO READERS - THIS IS NOT A STAND-ALONE. *DO NOT* read this, if you haven't read the first five. This is the finale of a HUGE disastrous MESS that is going to completely lose you, if you don't have the whole saga under your belt. There are just too many characters from FIVE previous books (and each author adds more, instead of working with the secondary threads the previous author provided)... it won't be enjoyable to jump in for this last book without reading the others, I promise.
Anyhow, this finale installment of 'Texas Twins' - which is an X-mess book, because the saga took place over a year, and we've finally made it to December. I had low hopes for Jillian's book, and wasn't going to read it. Mostly because I haven't enjoyed a single thing out of her - have a track record of chucking her books at walls. I threw this one, too - but forced myself to pick it BACK up... (((sigh.))) I wasn't going to finish the series - I finished #4 to discover that I'd read #5 back in 2013, so I hadn't planned on reading that, either, but my kids helped me sort the collection of LI books I'd acquired, and remembered seeing 'Texas Twins' in the box, and got these two out, insisting that if I have them, I need to put them together, as a set... and consider 'finishing what I started'. "Finish what you start" is a thing, and I have to be a good example...
I'm not even sure why Jillian was included in the group that was doing this series. Her writing is nowhere NEAR on par with any of the others, and it showed in this book in a bad way. But then, McMahon's offering (#2) was sub-par and basically unnecessary to the series, so there's that, too. Springer, James, Kaye and Perry carried this thing, and did it well. And you can read all four of those ladies' books and leave off #2 and #6 (←this one), and have a good, complete-ish series.
Okay, to the review of this one. This is the *grand finale* of the six-book series, and the 'answer' to all of the questions. And I get that - as a group - the authors/editors likely decided what the underlying story was (spoiler: Belle saw a murder 25 years ago, was put in witness protection, took half the twins with her, splitting the family)... but SERIOUSLY, Jillian?!?! Nobody had an inkling about this?
We know from book one - when Landon hired a PI to help figure out things - that Belle Colby was a made-up person. There was no information available on her, and that was searching official government records and everything. So from *MOMENT ONE* we as readers all suspected witness protection. And her kids are military, reporter, cop, etc... and n.o.n.e. of them ever once had the thought cross their mind that witness protection was a viable explanation? They all freak out at the news, because Jillian Hart said, "They're THAT dumb! *GASP!* Shock!!!!" REALLY?????
And the names drive me crazy. Maddie and GRAYson, Laurel and TANner... but when the two have their names changed, Laurel (a plant) becomes Violet (a plant), but TANner (a color) becomes... wait for it... JACK. (((O_o))) No. Words. And on Pg 17, Brian calls his son 'Jack' like it's nothing, but then stumbles around names for the rest of the book. Continuity would be GRRRReat.
So in uber-ironic, ultra-dramatic fashion, Belle wakes up from her coma EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as her estranged (and ex-ish) husband Brian pulls thru from a near-death bout of... strep... out in a hacienda on the border with no phone for miles in Texas. And as he staggers home, Belle staggers out of bed in a nursing facility. All four/five-ish of their kids are on hand to surprise them with their having been reunited and they demand to know what the ever-lovin' HECK was going on all their lives. So they drag half-dead daddy to half-alive momma's bedside, where...
...Belle and Brian re-live a bunch of seriously UNhappy moments leading up to their UNhappy divorce. Which would be reason for them to split, if that had been the plot device chosen, but it's really overkill, because *MURDER IN THE ALLEY BY THE PEDIATRICIAN OFFICE!!!* (No, I'm not kidding.) And because 2 year old Tanner and three month old Violet are witnesses - NO, I'm NOT kidding - they're the two who go into witness protection with Mama. Who apparently doesn't have a problem with leaving her EX-ish husband, anyhow. Makes you wonder how they were planning on splitting the kids if Johnson *hadn't* whacked his victim.
What doesn't make sense is why ALL of them didn't go in witness protection, together. Change the names, send them ALL to Washington State (or Alaska, to be safe)... they need doctors up there, too, hello. Makes no sense, if they didn't want the kids split and didn't want to be without them... and expected to reconcile, later. The whole thing is really flimsy and borderline dumb.
Meanwhile, Brian married again, because... gotta be divorced to have married Carter's mom and squeeze in another book, so he was prescient, apparently... while Belle stayed true, but is now the one biting his head off over EVERY. LITTLE. THING. ('You're STAYING in my house with your kids while I'm not there?!!?' Didn't she JUST tell the kids to take care of him? Or how about 'How dare you as a doctor ask about my condition, you EX-husband, you!!') wOw. Belle's a beeotch, just sayin'. Apparently where Jack gets his crank-nasty from. He gets her out of the home, and says, "Bet you're glad for a break from that place." "Ecstatic," is her snippy reply. Because HART.
As for the Bible thing... conveniently, the murderer in prison (Johnson) sent Bibles and 'forgive me' notes a la Al Anon's 12-step program, and promptly died. Six months ago. When all the notes were distributed for him (don't tell me - SADIE, right? What else could be her story?), and then he could properly cack off. ((((sigh.)))))
And the WRITING. It's... abysmal.
Belle stands up on Pg 24, walks to the window and away from Brian, looks out, has this WHOLE conversation with Brian, and then Violet comes in and says, "Don't you look cozy?!" What, standing across the room from each other, NOT looking at each other?! Really? As if that wasn't bad enough, then Violet HELPS HER TO HER FEET to take her back to her bed. She was *STANDING* at the window, hello...!! They ask what they can do for her, and she says, "Take care of Brian." Which would be taking him home (since EVERYONE stays at the ranch, right?).
Pg 31 - Hart says that Ty and Landon are 'doting fiancés'. For the past THREE BOOKS we have barely seen Ty or Landon, at all. They're never around. Landon's gone to the city all week, and Ty was never demonstrative in the first place - he prefers cows, and doesn't really do the romantic thing. That's... kind of the *opposite* of 'doting'.
Pg 41: "Don't think I've forgotten you or forgot the father Jack and Violet should have had." (←... ALSO him. Ugh, the writing...!)
Pg 70: "Dad, we need to talk about our paternity and your neighbor, Patty Earl." "Wait, what does she have to do with anything?" "Yeah. So! Let's watch football - pass the chips!" ← That's Jillian Hart's writing, RIGHT there. Makes. No. Sense. Introduce something, and ignore it. For no good reason.
Pg 80: "Do you remember when we used to save every penny to go for milkshakes?" he asked. "Yes, I used to scrounge between the couch cushions, pick up every penny in a parking lot... ALL for a *Milkshake*!!" ← um... 'saving' means putting away/keeping for something, 'scrounging' is scavenging... TWO different things. And if they were THAT bad off, weren't there more important things than milkshakes? Say... diapers for FOUR?! Especially since no parental help was ever mentioned, and they were both eighteen years years old?!
Pg 81: "You worked two jobs..." she added. ((WHAT ABOUT SCHOOL?!)) "And then we'd walk to the drive-thru together!" ((←with the scrounged quarters, right?)) Oi. My. Vey...!
At this point, I'm acting this out, reading it aloud, hand grasping heart, falling on the living room floor. My daughter pulled it from my hand and chucked it at the wall. My son went over and stepped on it. The other two boys assured me that I did my duty, and could quit. Please, PLEASE stop.
So I did. DNF @ 82 pages.
I'm SO out.
NOTE TO READERS - THIS IS NOT A STAND-ALONE. *DO NOT* read this, if you haven't read the first five. This is the finale of a HUGE disastrous MESS that is going to completely lose you, if you don't have the whole saga under your belt. There are just too many characters from FIVE previous books (and each author adds more, instead of working with the secondary threads the previous author provided)... it won't be enjoyable to jump in for this last book without reading the others, I promise.
Anyhow, this finale installment of 'Texas Twins' - which is an X-mess book, because the saga took place over a year, and we've finally made it to December. I had low hopes for Jillian's book, and wasn't going to read it. Mostly because I haven't enjoyed a single thing out of her - have a track record of chucking her books at walls. I threw this one, too - but forced myself to pick it BACK up... (((sigh.))) I wasn't going to finish the series - I finished #4 to discover that I'd read #5 back in 2013, so I hadn't planned on reading that, either, but my kids helped me sort the collection of LI books I'd acquired, and remembered seeing 'Texas Twins' in the box, and got these two out, insisting that if I have them, I need to put them together, as a set... and consider 'finishing what I started'. "Finish what you start" is a thing, and I have to be a good example...
I'm not even sure why Jillian was included in the group that was doing this series. Her writing is nowhere NEAR on par with any of the others, and it showed in this book in a bad way. But then, McMahon's offering (#2) was sub-par and basically unnecessary to the series, so there's that, too. Springer, James, Kaye and Perry carried this thing, and did it well. And you can read all four of those ladies' books and leave off #2 and #6 (←this one), and have a good, complete-ish series.
Okay, to the review of this one. This is the *grand finale* of the six-book series, and the 'answer' to all of the questions. And I get that - as a group - the authors/editors likely decided what the underlying story was (spoiler: Belle saw a murder 25 years ago, was put in witness protection, took half the twins with her, splitting the family)... but SERIOUSLY, Jillian?!?! Nobody had an inkling about this?
We know from book one - when Landon hired a PI to help figure out things - that Belle Colby was a made-up person. There was no information available on her, and that was searching official government records and everything. So from *MOMENT ONE* we as readers all suspected witness protection. And her kids are military, reporter, cop, etc... and n.o.n.e. of them ever once had the thought cross their mind that witness protection was a viable explanation? They all freak out at the news, because Jillian Hart said, "They're THAT dumb! *GASP!* Shock!!!!" REALLY?????
And the names drive me crazy. Maddie and GRAYson, Laurel and TANner... but when the two have their names changed, Laurel (a plant) becomes Violet (a plant), but TANner (a color) becomes... wait for it... JACK. (((O_o))) No. Words. And on Pg 17, Brian calls his son 'Jack' like it's nothing, but then stumbles around names for the rest of the book. Continuity would be GRRRReat.
So in uber-ironic, ultra-dramatic fashion, Belle wakes up from her coma EXACTLY THE SAME TIME as her estranged (and ex-ish) husband Brian pulls thru from a near-death bout of... strep... out in a hacienda on the border with no phone for miles in Texas. And as he staggers home, Belle staggers out of bed in a nursing facility. All four/five-ish of their kids are on hand to surprise them with their having been reunited and they demand to know what the ever-lovin' HECK was going on all their lives. So they drag half-dead daddy to half-alive momma's bedside, where...
...Belle and Brian re-live a bunch of seriously UNhappy moments leading up to their UNhappy divorce. Which would be reason for them to split, if that had been the plot device chosen, but it's really overkill, because *MURDER IN THE ALLEY BY THE PEDIATRICIAN OFFICE!!!* (No, I'm not kidding.) And because 2 year old Tanner and three month old Violet are witnesses - NO, I'm NOT kidding - they're the two who go into witness protection with Mama. Who apparently doesn't have a problem with leaving her EX-ish husband, anyhow. Makes you wonder how they were planning on splitting the kids if Johnson *hadn't* whacked his victim.
What doesn't make sense is why ALL of them didn't go in witness protection, together. Change the names, send them ALL to Washington State (or Alaska, to be safe)... they need doctors up there, too, hello. Makes no sense, if they didn't want the kids split and didn't want to be without them... and expected to reconcile, later. The whole thing is really flimsy and borderline dumb.
Meanwhile, Brian married again, because... gotta be divorced to have married Carter's mom and squeeze in another book, so he was prescient, apparently... while Belle stayed true, but is now the one biting his head off over EVERY. LITTLE. THING. ('You're STAYING in my house with your kids while I'm not there?!!?' Didn't she JUST tell the kids to take care of him? Or how about 'How dare you as a doctor ask about my condition, you EX-husband, you!!') wOw. Belle's a beeotch, just sayin'. Apparently where Jack gets his crank-nasty from. He gets her out of the home, and says, "Bet you're glad for a break from that place." "Ecstatic," is her snippy reply. Because HART.
As for the Bible thing... conveniently, the murderer in prison (Johnson) sent Bibles and 'forgive me' notes a la Al Anon's 12-step program, and promptly died. Six months ago. When all the notes were distributed for him (don't tell me - SADIE, right? What else could be her story?), and then he could properly cack off. ((((sigh.)))))
And the WRITING. It's... abysmal.
Belle stands up on Pg 24, walks to the window and away from Brian, looks out, has this WHOLE conversation with Brian, and then Violet comes in and says, "Don't you look cozy?!" What, standing across the room from each other, NOT looking at each other?! Really? As if that wasn't bad enough, then Violet HELPS HER TO HER FEET to take her back to her bed. She was *STANDING* at the window, hello...!! They ask what they can do for her, and she says, "Take care of Brian." Which would be taking him home (since EVERYONE stays at the ranch, right?).
Pg 31 - Hart says that Ty and Landon are 'doting fiancés'. For the past THREE BOOKS we have barely seen Ty or Landon, at all. They're never around. Landon's gone to the city all week, and Ty was never demonstrative in the first place - he prefers cows, and doesn't really do the romantic thing. That's... kind of the *opposite* of 'doting'.
Pg 41: "Don't think I've forgotten you or forgot the father Jack and Violet should have had." (←... ALSO him. Ugh, the writing...!)
Pg 70: "Dad, we need to talk about our paternity and your neighbor, Patty Earl." "Wait, what does she have to do with anything?" "Yeah. So! Let's watch football - pass the chips!" ← That's Jillian Hart's writing, RIGHT there. Makes. No. Sense. Introduce something, and ignore it. For no good reason.
Pg 80: "Do you remember when we used to save every penny to go for milkshakes?" he asked. "Yes, I used to scrounge between the couch cushions, pick up every penny in a parking lot... ALL for a *Milkshake*!!" ← um... 'saving' means putting away/keeping for something, 'scrounging' is scavenging... TWO different things. And if they were THAT bad off, weren't there more important things than milkshakes? Say... diapers for FOUR?! Especially since no parental help was ever mentioned, and they were both eighteen years years old?!
Pg 81: "You worked two jobs..." she added. ((WHAT ABOUT SCHOOL?!)) "And then we'd walk to the drive-thru together!" ((←with the scrounged quarters, right?)) Oi. My. Vey...!
At this point, I'm acting this out, reading it aloud, hand grasping heart, falling on the living room floor. My daughter pulled it from my hand and chucked it at the wall. My son went over and stepped on it. The other two boys assured me that I did my duty, and could quit. Please, PLEASE stop.
So I did. DNF @ 82 pages.
I'm SO out.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
October 30, 2012
Love Inspired Texas Twins series by Jillian Hart "Reunited for the Holidays"
this is the second book I have read recently of this series and it by another author yet the story moves along with the folks I have met in Arlene James book continuing their story.. questions in that book are answered in this one, thanks Arlene and Jillian for a wonderful story of this family...
Twenty five years ago Brian Wallace and Belle Colby had been married, just young kids having kids and have them they did -two sets of twins. two little boys-two little girls, then the family was torn apart and each took a boy and a girl -going their seperate ways-never to see one another again. This had been the plan.
Brian became a medical dr and gave his services to others, after one mission he returns to find his family reunited, He has always loved Bell though he had remarried and had a son with her. She had been a wonderful mother to his children and life had been good. He lost her several years before he returned and found that the twins had found one another and his Belle had been in a coma for 6 months now going through rehabilitation.
Jillian gives answers to why the family broke up and what happens as this family is reunited once again. Happiness reigns when the girls meet men they want to marry and Jack fell in love with the girl that had no memory -which by the way did return. His brother (Identical twin brother) and he were learning about one another. Grayson has a finace when he comes to meet Jack. Two girls and two boys now all grown up with mates chosen for their lives, now "Hope" there will be a way for their Mom and Dad to reunite after all this time has passed and each has made their own way in life.
Brian is a well to do doctor and Belle is the head of a ranch that is well known. Can these two find their way back to the young love they once knew after so much time apart.
I am so thankful that I received this second book from Jillian just as I finished reading the first one by Arlene, it was not planned-just happened.
Come and read and enjoy this series "Texas Twins", talk about double your pleasure-double your fun, we have here double-double.
this is the second book I have read recently of this series and it by another author yet the story moves along with the folks I have met in Arlene James book continuing their story.. questions in that book are answered in this one, thanks Arlene and Jillian for a wonderful story of this family...
Twenty five years ago Brian Wallace and Belle Colby had been married, just young kids having kids and have them they did -two sets of twins. two little boys-two little girls, then the family was torn apart and each took a boy and a girl -going their seperate ways-never to see one another again. This had been the plan.
Brian became a medical dr and gave his services to others, after one mission he returns to find his family reunited, He has always loved Bell though he had remarried and had a son with her. She had been a wonderful mother to his children and life had been good. He lost her several years before he returned and found that the twins had found one another and his Belle had been in a coma for 6 months now going through rehabilitation.
Jillian gives answers to why the family broke up and what happens as this family is reunited once again. Happiness reigns when the girls meet men they want to marry and Jack fell in love with the girl that had no memory -which by the way did return. His brother (Identical twin brother) and he were learning about one another. Grayson has a finace when he comes to meet Jack. Two girls and two boys now all grown up with mates chosen for their lives, now "Hope" there will be a way for their Mom and Dad to reunite after all this time has passed and each has made their own way in life.
Brian is a well to do doctor and Belle is the head of a ranch that is well known. Can these two find their way back to the young love they once knew after so much time apart.
I am so thankful that I received this second book from Jillian just as I finished reading the first one by Arlene, it was not planned-just happened.
Come and read and enjoy this series "Texas Twins", talk about double your pleasure-double your fun, we have here double-double.
November 7, 2012
Reunited for the Holidays by Jillian Hart
Texas Twins Series Book 6
Brian Wallace finally returns to his home in Fort Worth. Due to unforeseen circumstances he was not able to contact his family. In fact, he was through such a traumatic time that he has realized he has been given a precious second chance at life. At least with his three children. There will always be a hole in his heart for the other three he lost forever….or did he? Seems there has been quite a few changes in the six months he’s been gone.
Belle Colby has been in a coma for six months. Nothing like waking up and seeing two of her children for the first time in twenty-five years. Add to that the fact all of them have found their soul mates. But nothing tops the moment when the one man she never planned to see again in her life walks into her room at the convalescent home. And how quickly her heart recognizes him.
This was a really good series with enough loose ends to keep you coming back to read the next book. Jillian Hart pulls together all the loose ends from the previous five books to give the readers closure. I found it tough to leave the Wallace/Colby clan and Grasslands, Texas, the characters were all written so well and pulled the reader into their world. In this final book we see how several of our characters have to face their past and forgive themselves and others so they can move ahead to the future and good things that God has planned for them.
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Texas Twins Series Book 6
Brian Wallace finally returns to his home in Fort Worth. Due to unforeseen circumstances he was not able to contact his family. In fact, he was through such a traumatic time that he has realized he has been given a precious second chance at life. At least with his three children. There will always be a hole in his heart for the other three he lost forever….or did he? Seems there has been quite a few changes in the six months he’s been gone.
Belle Colby has been in a coma for six months. Nothing like waking up and seeing two of her children for the first time in twenty-five years. Add to that the fact all of them have found their soul mates. But nothing tops the moment when the one man she never planned to see again in her life walks into her room at the convalescent home. And how quickly her heart recognizes him.
This was a really good series with enough loose ends to keep you coming back to read the next book. Jillian Hart pulls together all the loose ends from the previous five books to give the readers closure. I found it tough to leave the Wallace/Colby clan and Grasslands, Texas, the characters were all written so well and pulled the reader into their world. In this final book we see how several of our characters have to face their past and forgive themselves and others so they can move ahead to the future and good things that God has planned for them.
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November 3, 2012
This is the only book I have read thus far in the "Texas Twins" series, and it just happens to be the last one. I found it wonderful by itself, even though I hadn't read the others, as Jillian Hart does an excellent job giving enough details from the previous stories to help understanding, but not so many that it bogs her story down. One romance seemed to develop so quickly that it was hard to believe, but hints of it may have very well been given in other books. The details of preparing for Christmas, romances developing, reunions, weddings, a couple of small mysteries, and second chances all make for a great wrap-up to the continuity series. It is a great, feel-good holiday story, and Jillian does an excellent job tying up all the loose ends and finishing the saga. Connecting with the characters emotionally was easy for me, and it made me want to go back and read the previous books.
October 26, 2012
I spent all day yesterday reading Book Six of the Texas Twins series by Love Inspired. Entitled "Reunited for the Holidays" by Jillian Hart, this story wraps up the wonderful Texas Twins story, solving mysteries as the Wallace and Colby families find love and joy in family at Christmas time. Why did Belle and Brian separate the family in the first place? Why did the twins never know about each other? Who really is Jack and Grayson's father? How will Belle and Brian relate to each other once he returns from his mission trip, and why was he gone so long? Will Belle ever fully recover from her coma? All this and some love stories of their friends too make this a great story to long remember. Supurb job tying up the lose ends, Jillian Hart. What a wonderful story for Christmas!!!!
December 11, 2012
This was one of my favorite LI series - every month I literally could not wait until the next book came out. This one was such a happy conclusion to the Wallace family saga! I loved that we got to see how each of Belle and Brian's children got to have their happy endings (or, I should say beginnings) as well as .
Six authors collaborated on this story arc and made the story believable and wrote characters that stayed consistent over six books and connected with me on a personal level. LI has such wonderful authors, I can't say enough about all of them (and Jillian Hart is one of my favorites!).
Six authors collaborated on this story arc and made the story believable and wrote characters that stayed consistent over six books and connected with me on a personal level. LI has such wonderful authors, I can't say enough about all of them (and Jillian Hart is one of my favorites!).
February 29, 2020
This is a mini ‘Books For Christian Girls’ review. It is not a full content review and will not receive one. These mini-reviews are years old and just for clarity on the rating the book received on Goodreads.
3/25/2013-
“Cute story.”
2/7/2020-
Mentioned in a recent video that I would be unhauling this series after rereading it.
*Main Content-
Kisses; Mentions of Brain and Belle deciding to get married after they found out she was pregnant; Mentions of seeing a murder.
3/25/2013-
“Cute story.”
2/7/2020-
Mentioned in a recent video that I would be unhauling this series after rereading it.
*Main Content-
Kisses; Mentions of Brain and Belle deciding to get married after they found out she was pregnant; Mentions of seeing a murder.
October 16, 2012
Jillian Hart concluded the Texas Twins series with Reunited for the Holidays. Jill knows how to write a romance. She had the added obstacle of including lots of characters and solving a mystery which began in the first of the six books. She did a beautiful job, but I felt it dragged a bit at the end because I wanted to get to the end with a happily ever after.
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September 10, 2016January 15th 2014.
Holy! When I found out there's a book six in the series, I was like, who else? I thought the five siblings already got their own parts. I didn't even think it would be about the parents! Woot! I must read this one!
Holy! When I found out there's a book six in the series, I was like, who else? I thought the five siblings already got their own parts. I didn't even think it would be about the parents! Woot! I must read this one!
October 16, 2014
Last in a series...so the characters have a backstory which presumes a bit more knowledge than I had. But still an intriguing story. I wish it could have been longer to develop a couple of the side characters more....or maybe they were developed in the other books. Who knows...
December 6, 2012
A great ending to a great series.
December 27, 2012
Awesome book.. Highly recommended
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December 27, 2014Miniseries: Texas Twins
Category: Inspirational Romance
Category: Inspirational Romance
December 17, 2012
The last in a series and was so happy to see it turn out like I hoped it would. Loved the whole series.
December 17, 2012
I have enjoyed this love inspired series. Reading different authors to continue the story was really nice. Thank goodness all mysteries were solved and EVERYONE got their HEA.
December 24, 2012
The conclusion to the Texas Twins series. All the kids with their new loves and now their parents are together to answer all the questions why they were apart.
216 pages
216 pages
April 16, 2014
A very good story based on a murder, witness protection program and a family torn apart.
August 29, 2015
Last in the series, Belle and Brian are both alive and kicking! At 43 with 5 grown children, (OUCH), all of whom found true love, can they find happiness?
December 6, 2015
Good Christmas romance. I hadn't read the others in the series so it took me a bit to get up to speed but it was a fun book.
November 30, 2015
This series really kept the suspense going throughout the whole 6 books. Enjoyed them all.
January 18, 2024
Boring
i try to read this book without read the first 5 books before. when i saw some reviewers here that suggesting to read the previous books first if you want to feel connect and knowing more deep about each of these character in book 6(last one). well.. i just read this as stand alone. i didnt even care for other characters story. sure it will help you to feel more about their background bcoz theres soo much characters in here. but it works for me.
so.. this is the story about the divorced parent, who for 25 years not seeing each other, and should stayed like that. at first i thought hmm... wht could be that bad for them to hide?maybe they are some fugitive from russian or south korean? or they were chased by some mafia don? or wht? it turns out to be.. for the witness protection program. so there was a guy and a girl who is a chilhood sweetheart, fell pregnant at 16 and married (is this even legal?) they are having twin for the first born, and then fell pregnant again and having another twin (is this some kind of alien BS story? hw can she produced twin after twin? why not making her pregnant w/quadruple at onced?) and then the girl witnessing a murderer while she was out w/her 1 boy and 1 girl baby. and she took a stand in court. put the murdered in jail, and the police put her and her 2 child (each from her twin set) to a witness protection program. but bore she was into this syit, her and the guy marriage is having a problem. you knw, w/4 kids in total w/age only 2 years apart, and they were still a student who work part time and being a teenager, him was not too involved in this. the girl then asking to b separate. he agreed. and then another syit happen, she saw the murder.
for 25 years thy dont see each other. including their set of twin. so.. this is wht BS is, the girl toook 1 boy and 1 girl and leftanothe 1 boy and 1 girl for the father. this is supposed to b forever and ever. bcoz, witness protection right? i've never seen this one anywhere on my tv about detective/police series. wht kind of program that both of them took faithfully to let their cild apart for ever? and hte murderer is not even some big hot shot serial killer or something. he was just a murderer who then convert to xtian and sent his daughter to asked for an appologize bfore he dead dead in prison. but really? this is a reason for 2 sets of twin be separated for 25 years? and if the girl not have some accident (she fell from the horse and in coma for 6 months. this is in other book. in this book she was just waking up from the coma), and 1 of her kid accidentaly met another separate kid, they still to this day wont be met if that did not happened.
whats more BS is, the guy after divorced her, for like 2 years after met another girl and married her. bcoz he was lonely and having 2 kids that the girl left him for is too much. so he makes it work for the other girl and not told these 2 kid that her real mom is not this new wife. the new wife then dead dead in car accident, but she and him having another kid. while the girl.. his ex wife for 25 effing years is not having any relationship. whats more annoying, they both married when thay both 16. and divorced when they were 18/19. so the ex wife is a divorcee at 18/19 but NEVER EVER dating, or married. while the guy is married and having another kid! and now they met again when she and him at 43 years old of age. waht the eff is the girl doing in her 20s? 30s? my god, how a women writer wrote this BS? is there some secret cult for all these writer? i found it like 99% of story like this, not doing any justice for the female character. but for the male, he can goo and met another one, having a family having kid, this and that, but the female? nope! when you wrote this, what's in your head? just BS
hate it.
i try to read this book without read the first 5 books before. when i saw some reviewers here that suggesting to read the previous books first if you want to feel connect and knowing more deep about each of these character in book 6(last one). well.. i just read this as stand alone. i didnt even care for other characters story. sure it will help you to feel more about their background bcoz theres soo much characters in here. but it works for me.
so.. this is the story about the divorced parent, who for 25 years not seeing each other, and should stayed like that. at first i thought hmm... wht could be that bad for them to hide?maybe they are some fugitive from russian or south korean? or they were chased by some mafia don? or wht? it turns out to be.. for the witness protection program. so there was a guy and a girl who is a chilhood sweetheart, fell pregnant at 16 and married (is this even legal?) they are having twin for the first born, and then fell pregnant again and having another twin (is this some kind of alien BS story? hw can she produced twin after twin? why not making her pregnant w/quadruple at onced?) and then the girl witnessing a murderer while she was out w/her 1 boy and 1 girl baby. and she took a stand in court. put the murdered in jail, and the police put her and her 2 child (each from her twin set) to a witness protection program. but bore she was into this syit, her and the guy marriage is having a problem. you knw, w/4 kids in total w/age only 2 years apart, and they were still a student who work part time and being a teenager, him was not too involved in this. the girl then asking to b separate. he agreed. and then another syit happen, she saw the murder.
for 25 years thy dont see each other. including their set of twin. so.. this is wht BS is, the girl toook 1 boy and 1 girl and leftanothe 1 boy and 1 girl for the father. this is supposed to b forever and ever. bcoz, witness protection right? i've never seen this one anywhere on my tv about detective/police series. wht kind of program that both of them took faithfully to let their cild apart for ever? and hte murderer is not even some big hot shot serial killer or something. he was just a murderer who then convert to xtian and sent his daughter to asked for an appologize bfore he dead dead in prison. but really? this is a reason for 2 sets of twin be separated for 25 years? and if the girl not have some accident (she fell from the horse and in coma for 6 months. this is in other book. in this book she was just waking up from the coma), and 1 of her kid accidentaly met another separate kid, they still to this day wont be met if that did not happened.
whats more BS is, the guy after divorced her, for like 2 years after met another girl and married her. bcoz he was lonely and having 2 kids that the girl left him for is too much. so he makes it work for the other girl and not told these 2 kid that her real mom is not this new wife. the new wife then dead dead in car accident, but she and him having another kid. while the girl.. his ex wife for 25 effing years is not having any relationship. whats more annoying, they both married when thay both 16. and divorced when they were 18/19. so the ex wife is a divorcee at 18/19 but NEVER EVER dating, or married. while the guy is married and having another kid! and now they met again when she and him at 43 years old of age. waht the eff is the girl doing in her 20s? 30s? my god, how a women writer wrote this BS? is there some secret cult for all these writer? i found it like 99% of story like this, not doing any justice for the female character. but for the male, he can goo and met another one, having a family having kid, this and that, but the female? nope! when you wrote this, what's in your head? just BS
hate it.
October 5, 2022
This is the final installment to a fun series. I have said in several of the previous reviews the premise of this series is a bit far-fetched but it is still fun to suppose.
Reunited tidies everything up nicely... and while I often prefer a bit more grit and realism, I enjoyed some happily-ever-after this time. The mysteries and secrets are all solved and revealed. Second chances are granted. And love triumphs over all.
Plus.. if you like a book where the MCs are older, this one fits that bill! Belle and Brian are in their 40s... certainly not old! but they have adult children (they were teenage parents) and grands. They have lived a good bit of life and have new perspectives on love and marriage than they did as teenagers.
Sweet read to wind up a sweet series!
Reunited tidies everything up nicely... and while I often prefer a bit more grit and realism, I enjoyed some happily-ever-after this time. The mysteries and secrets are all solved and revealed. Second chances are granted. And love triumphs over all.
Plus.. if you like a book where the MCs are older, this one fits that bill! Belle and Brian are in their 40s... certainly not old! but they have adult children (they were teenage parents) and grands. They have lived a good bit of life and have new perspectives on love and marriage than they did as teenagers.
Sweet read to wind up a sweet series!
July 3, 2020
Emotional rollercoaster but also loved a lot of the mystery. Only read this book, so new to the characters.
Liked that there were multiple mysteries to solve, though being young and so in love when I was a teen made it a bit more real. Part of the rollercoaster. I didn’t have babies or get married, but I could definitely relate in a way that many others might not.
Not the light read I expected, but good. May need something a little less emotional for my next read.
Liked that there were multiple mysteries to solve, though being young and so in love when I was a teen made it a bit more real. Part of the rollercoaster. I didn’t have babies or get married, but I could definitely relate in a way that many others might not.
Not the light read I expected, but good. May need something a little less emotional for my next read.
June 21, 2019
I think I would have enjoyed this book much better if I would have read the other books in Texas Twins. As it was I was hard pressed to follow some of the story line and I felt like bits and pieces of information were missing to me. I’m going to read the other books and then this one again and come back to review it again. Hopefully that will make it more enjoyable.
September 26, 2022
It was great book to end this series.But
I thought it was good to see the main characters trying to figure out interact with each other. It was a wonderful journey as they worked their way back to they had for each other. Taking this journey through the six books was a joy to read.
I thought it was good to see the main characters trying to figure out interact with each other. It was a wonderful journey as they worked their way back to they had for each other. Taking this journey through the six books was a joy to read.
September 18, 2017
Aww, this book was sweet. A little predictable but sweet.
March 23, 2018
Reunited for the Holidays is the sixth wonderful book in the Texas Twins series written by author Jillian Hart.
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