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His Holiday Matchmaker
A Mommy for the Holidays
Nathan Cooper's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas—a new mommy. Caring for six-year-old Katie is the widowed builder's priority, and he doesn't want to risk more heartache for either of them. Yet when interior designer Alyssa McCall comes to town on a temporary assignment, both he and Katie are charmed. Working together to finish the new recreation center, Alyssa and Nathan form a connection, though Alyssa worries that she can't be the mother Katie deserves. But with one little girl—and her handsome daddy—determined to prove her wrong, this could be a Christmas to remember.
Nathan Cooper's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas—a new mommy. Caring for six-year-old Katie is the widowed builder's priority, and he doesn't want to risk more heartache for either of them. Yet when interior designer Alyssa McCall comes to town on a temporary assignment, both he and Katie are charmed. Working together to finish the new recreation center, Alyssa and Nathan form a connection, though Alyssa worries that she can't be the mother Katie deserves. But with one little girl—and her handsome daddy—determined to prove her wrong, this could be a Christmas to remember.
224 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published October 18, 2016
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Kat Brookes
37 books19 followersAward-winning romance author Kat Brookes is a 4-time RWA Golden Heart finalist, American Title III finalist, Winner of both the National Readers’ Choice Award and Harlequin's Great American Romance Novel contests. She has written for Amazon Publishing, Kensington Publishing, Harlequin and Harpeth Road Press. She's married to her childhood sweetheart, her hero, with whom she has two beautiful daughters.
Check out Kat's website: www.katbrookes.com
Check out Kat's website: www.katbrookes.com
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December 5, 2016
This is a must read if you love Christmas romance stories. This is a well written story with believable characters and a plot that works. Both the hero and heroine are slightly flawed which makes the story one you can't put down. Add a sweet little girl wanting a new mother for Christmas and you have the kind of holiday story that is one you'll remember and want to read more than once. I enjoyed this story the most out of the first two I've read and I can't wait for the next one.
December 25, 2016
This was such a beautiful story, full of emotion and touching moments.
December 12, 2022
Beautifully written with excellent characters details
November 24, 2022
Look, I really hate to do it. I want to give it four stars. But when you tackle a disability in a book, two things have to happen: first, you *HAVE* to research your disability. Second, you *HAVE* to be consistent with the disability. I'm sorry, but this just did NOT have either of those, and it r.e.a.l.l.y. took from the book.
Not to mention the grammatical errors. Hanging quotations, singular where it should be plural... I wouldn't mention it, but when there are enough to fill my hand... EDITOR needed. On page 85, Logan says, "I need a few flats of violets." and then it says, "Jack Dillon owned the local nursery Logan used for his landscaping company. He was also the father of the only woman his youngest brother had ever truly loved." Logan *IS* the youngest brother. Ugh.
The story is cute. It's *REALLY* cute. And there's twice the spiritual in this one as the last one (which could've easily been a secular book). So that was good. Although when Nathan says that 'he's never known a woman stronger in her faith', I about spewed my coffee... because she's NOT. AT. ALL. in her Bible, at any studies, bringing up things she's read, quoting verses... nada. Nothing. There's a lot more praying in this one, and attributing things to the Lord, so there's that, but Alyssa as a godly woman? Mmmmnot in this book.
The characterizations of the brothers and townsfolk is well done and fun, although the author cheats - A LOT - in this book. Need the nanny out of the picture? Oh-NO! Writer simply has her sister break her ankle and need her six counties away or whatever. Convenient, much? Doris and Myrna as sweet old shut-ins, but Christmas dinner leaves them completely out, because the writer forgets them in the haze of happy-ever-after-isms.
I had a *H.A.R.D* time with Alyssa's disability. She's got a metal plate in her head, and a damaged visual cortex. Which... HOW?! The visual cortex is right where the headrest of a seat in a car accident would cushion the thing, hello. Having your feet slip out from under you and hitting your head on a step or parking block or something, but a HEADREST?! No.
The damage sustained makes is so that she can see up close, but anything at a distance of something like 3ft or further is blur. Basically? What I see without my glasses. She can't see to read the sign hanging over the building she's standing in front of, but she can see his face when he stands beside her. Which would be fine... until she can see him across the church sanctuary (pg 106), and not just him, but the kids telling him things that she mouths "I'm Sorry" for... how does she know he's looking at her? SHE CAN'T SEE THAT FAR.
Then we have the opposite on pg 154 - she drops her cellphone, bends down, and is feeling around for it *RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER*. Then on pg 210 she comes downstairs from her room and picks out EVERY SINGLE PERSON in a packed living room, even across the room at the fireplace. That's not how it works. That's not how ANY of it works.
And that wasn't the only medical thing. The book was written in 2016, but she has Katie getting THE CHICKEN POX randomly in the story. First, all children are innoculated for CP, since before 2000 (I know this because I have *FIVE* children, the first of which was given the CP vax in 2000). Then they wanted to booster her in 2004, and I said, "She already is vaxxed", and they said, "It wears off", which scared me, because... what happens later in life? You get CP as an adult, and it's life-threatening. You get it as a kid, you're immune. And it being a newer procedure to vax CP, with no adults to observe to find out if their vax 'wears off' in later years? NO. That was the END of CP shots for us. We do it God's way. Natural immunity.
More, it took FIVE trips all the way across the state over THREE YEARS for me to even *F.I.N.D* a wild strain of CP to expose my other kids to. You can get CP from the vax, but it's non-transmissible (tried that, too). Finding a wild strain is near impossible, and that was in 2010. This is WHY every corner pharmacy offers shingles shots - because they 'eradicated' Chicken Pox, but that means that the parents (age 20-40) don't get their secondary exposure, and grandparents (50-80) don't get their third exposure, so in the past two decades, shingles has exploded.
Katie did *NOT* catch CP in 2016. Do. Your. RESEARCH. You can't find it - and even if you can, it's through secret on-line groups with code words to hide what you're doing, because it's "abusive" to expose your child to something like that, in this era. When I was a kid, they had Pox Parties. Now? You sneak across the state into a stranger's home and hope it's not a trap set by CPS.
I liked the storytelling. I did. I liked the characters. I even approved of the mild insertions of 'inspirational' themes, a step-up from book one in the series. But there were SO MANY OTHER problems with this, I had a really rough time with it.
Not to mention the grammatical errors. Hanging quotations, singular where it should be plural... I wouldn't mention it, but when there are enough to fill my hand... EDITOR needed. On page 85, Logan says, "I need a few flats of violets." and then it says, "Jack Dillon owned the local nursery Logan used for his landscaping company. He was also the father of the only woman his youngest brother had ever truly loved." Logan *IS* the youngest brother. Ugh.
The story is cute. It's *REALLY* cute. And there's twice the spiritual in this one as the last one (which could've easily been a secular book). So that was good. Although when Nathan says that 'he's never known a woman stronger in her faith', I about spewed my coffee... because she's NOT. AT. ALL. in her Bible, at any studies, bringing up things she's read, quoting verses... nada. Nothing. There's a lot more praying in this one, and attributing things to the Lord, so there's that, but Alyssa as a godly woman? Mmmmnot in this book.
The characterizations of the brothers and townsfolk is well done and fun, although the author cheats - A LOT - in this book. Need the nanny out of the picture? Oh-NO! Writer simply has her sister break her ankle and need her six counties away or whatever. Convenient, much? Doris and Myrna as sweet old shut-ins, but Christmas dinner leaves them completely out, because the writer forgets them in the haze of happy-ever-after-isms.
I had a *H.A.R.D* time with Alyssa's disability. She's got a metal plate in her head, and a damaged visual cortex. Which... HOW?! The visual cortex is right where the headrest of a seat in a car accident would cushion the thing, hello. Having your feet slip out from under you and hitting your head on a step or parking block or something, but a HEADREST?! No.
The damage sustained makes is so that she can see up close, but anything at a distance of something like 3ft or further is blur. Basically? What I see without my glasses. She can't see to read the sign hanging over the building she's standing in front of, but she can see his face when he stands beside her. Which would be fine... until she can see him across the church sanctuary (pg 106), and not just him, but the kids telling him things that she mouths "I'm Sorry" for... how does she know he's looking at her? SHE CAN'T SEE THAT FAR.
Then we have the opposite on pg 154 - she drops her cellphone, bends down, and is feeling around for it *RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER*. Then on pg 210 she comes downstairs from her room and picks out EVERY SINGLE PERSON in a packed living room, even across the room at the fireplace. That's not how it works. That's not how ANY of it works.
And that wasn't the only medical thing. The book was written in 2016, but she has Katie getting THE CHICKEN POX randomly in the story. First, all children are innoculated for CP, since before 2000 (I know this because I have *FIVE* children, the first of which was given the CP vax in 2000). Then they wanted to booster her in 2004, and I said, "She already is vaxxed", and they said, "It wears off", which scared me, because... what happens later in life? You get CP as an adult, and it's life-threatening. You get it as a kid, you're immune. And it being a newer procedure to vax CP, with no adults to observe to find out if their vax 'wears off' in later years? NO. That was the END of CP shots for us. We do it God's way. Natural immunity.
More, it took FIVE trips all the way across the state over THREE YEARS for me to even *F.I.N.D* a wild strain of CP to expose my other kids to. You can get CP from the vax, but it's non-transmissible (tried that, too). Finding a wild strain is near impossible, and that was in 2010. This is WHY every corner pharmacy offers shingles shots - because they 'eradicated' Chicken Pox, but that means that the parents (age 20-40) don't get their secondary exposure, and grandparents (50-80) don't get their third exposure, so in the past two decades, shingles has exploded.
Katie did *NOT* catch CP in 2016. Do. Your. RESEARCH. You can't find it - and even if you can, it's through secret on-line groups with code words to hide what you're doing, because it's "abusive" to expose your child to something like that, in this era. When I was a kid, they had Pox Parties. Now? You sneak across the state into a stranger's home and hope it's not a trap set by CPS.
I liked the storytelling. I did. I liked the characters. I even approved of the mild insertions of 'inspirational' themes, a step-up from book one in the series. But there were SO MANY OTHER problems with this, I had a really rough time with it.
January 2, 2024
Alyssa McCall comes to town on a temporary basis. She meets Nathan Cooper and his daughter Katie, who is wishing for a new mom for Christmas. Both father and daughter are charmed by her. The hope is that they can work out all the issues they are all facing and make their Christmas dreams come true.
I loved Alyssa and Nathan. The secondary characters were enjoyable too. I loved Alyssa's positive attitude and strong faith despite all she had been through. I enjoyed the Christmas theme which added to the enjoyment of the story.
I loved Alyssa and Nathan. The secondary characters were enjoyable too. I loved Alyssa's positive attitude and strong faith despite all she had been through. I enjoyed the Christmas theme which added to the enjoyment of the story.
September 22, 2018
I love a book where you can laugh out loud one minute, be near tears the next, but leaves you with such a feel good feeling at the end. This book does it all. I'm ready for the next book in the series!
December 7, 2022
Absolutely beautiful Christmas love story - I even shed a few tears in the end. A quick read and just what I needed as the holidays approach.
January 28, 2023
It was a good and sweet Christmas story about two finding love and strengthening their faith at Christmas.
November 8, 2024
Sweet story.
October 30, 2016
His Holiday Matchmaker by Kat Brookes. The second in the Texas Sweethearts series. Nathan Cooper has a six year old daughter called Katie. She wants a new mommy for Christmas. Nathan has a hard time forgetting his wife. Alyssa McCall comes to town to help with final touches on the rec center there that a tornado had blown down and they are rebuilding. Alyssa is considered blind but she can see up close things. A lot of feelings in this story.
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March 26, 2017
This is a just a romance novel, pure and simple; and that is what makes this book good. There are no little bits of mystery or conflicts with others. It's just a story of a romance that blooms between two people. Nathan no longer trusts God and has difficulty letting go of the past. Alyssa trusts God with her future and is a realist about life. Then there is the little matchmaker who is the thread that joins them together.
This is a comfortable and sweet romance that leaves you with a smile.
This is a comfortable and sweet romance that leaves you with a smile.
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