When a young doctor meets a mysterious woman on the night of her own wedding, she can't seem to avoid the fact that she's attracted to her.
A Christmas romance for gay women, A Kind of Miracle... follows in the footsteps of much needed lesbian romcom's like Saving Face and Imagine Me & You.
"I couldn’t help but smile at her. The way she stared, addicted. It was doing something to me and the feeling was so unfamiliar.. We didn’t even know one another but I couldn’t take my eyes off of her"
It was the soulmate-y 'time stopped when our eyes met' romance. Awfully cute. It was a bit weird that they full on admitted to liking each other like Erin saying you look edible and i can't stop thinking about you. Brooke still wondered 'does she like me or something'. Do you have any brain cells lady? Other than their first scene it wasn't like Imagine Me & You at all. Little angst and lots of fluff just what I was in the mood for. The writing so so simple and beautiful. I highlighted everything. It was so sweet.
“I know I’ve met you before somewhere, somehow and I feel like I’ve found you again not just met you. ”
“She was in my veins.”
“You make it sound like I'm some curse,” Brooke confessed. “That’s the opposite of what it is. You’re a kind of miracle,” I said.
This was an okay read. It was a little slow moving. Despite the story being alternately told by both mc’s, their characters were not very much developed. Maybe because not much happened in this book beside the mc’s falling in love. Which was a bit quick as was the break between Erin and Andrew after being together so long and just married.
I was interested in the concept of this book because Imagine Me & You is probably one of my favourite movies but it just didn't work very well. I'm not sure if the writing should have been more subtle or it's just not a concept that works well in written form. Erin and Brook, the main characters, were instantly romantically interested in each other and even though they claimed they tried to resist it, it didn't really feel like it. Then when the "obstacles" were removed they jumped head first into everything even though nothing was really settled yet. It annoyed me to no end because it felt like there was no emotional fallout for anything unless it involved the main characters being together. It also annoyed me that the husband became demonized by the end even though nothing in his reaction was very extreme or honestly unjustified in a situation he found himself in.
I couldn't decided between three or for stars, stop I decided for. Not too fond of the premise, cheating. Having sex with husband then split from husband and had sex with gf same day. This wasn't surrounded with Christmas, it was more like oh now its Christmas Eve day and meeting the family. Most of the time was fighting undeniable chemistry. Otherwise it was a good story, but don't know if its going to be a regular in my holiday season. I look forward to more books by Emma Chamberlain.
A beautifully written Christmas romance one of the best I have ever read,I just got so caught up in the story and the emotional journey of Brooke and Erin I read it in one go,well worth a read even outside of the Yule Tied season
I feel so bad giving this a 2. It's really a 2.5. But for some reason I don't want to round up.
This was very cis and white, which I knew going into it, and it's supposed to be inspired by/based on Imagine Me & You, which I love. But it lacked all the charm of the film, and kind of felt like the writers found a script for IM&Y and then changed it a little. This book could have used another round of copy-edits and editing; there were typos as well as transitions that made no sense, and sentences that were confusing. I had to go back mulitple times to try to figure out what was going on because a scene would just start, and there were a few times I had to recheck to see which narrator I was reading, because the voices sounded similar.
This is a quick read and it's a KU book, so if you pick it up, it's not going to be a horrible experience. But if you're looking for this type of story, definitely watch Imagine Me & You instead.
“I know I’ve met you before somewhere, somehow and I feel like I’ve found you again not just met you.”
“Being in love is knowing fear and embracing it is the only brave thing I have done. Wanting someone so much that you tell the fear to fuck off was the lack of safety I didn't know I needed” .
“I couldn’t help but smile at her. The way she stared, addicted. It was doing something to me and the feeling was so unfamiliar. … We didn’t even know one another but I couldn’t take my eyes off of her.”
“All this time, I'd been waiting for her.”
Absolutely beautiful!!! OMG, this story TOTALLY rocked & then some!! Nothing like finally discover the love you never knew you wanted & needed until you felt it for the first time & couldn't fathom existing to live without it!
Based loosely on the film Imagine Me and You (which it references in the blurb), the book is about Erin, a doctor, who is about to marry her longtime boyfriend, Andrew, also a doctor. As she steps toward the altar, her eyes lock with Brooke, the plus-one of Erin's best friend. This begins a confusing attraction for them both and a series of chance meetings over the next few months in which their friendship deepens and the attraction strengthens.
Even though we know how it ends, the author did a good job of drawing out the back and forth of their coming together. It was enough to hold my interest, even though the writing was spotty and there were some editing errors. I'm giving it 3 stars, but really, it's more like a 3.5.
I have to be careful here but this story resonated so much with my story. I definitely know the feelings going on between Brook and Erin. Having walked in these shoes I can honestly say that the writer pretty much nailed the feelings. The connection felt from day one and the feeling like you just become part of something bigger then you. It reaches deep down in to your soul and when you look at the other person you can see deep in to their soul despite the hurt being caused and the fear of what is happening. This book captures that feeling and leads to the wonderful conclusion. Blythe Stone just captured my life in her words.
Amazing, some magical pull made it hard to put this one down. The authors painted something magical and extraordinary with words. I may have one major complaint, the chapters alternate in narration in the first person between two main characters. This is ok if there were just few chapters, but this small book has 20-something chapters. It had me constantly deducing which character is the I and which is the She/Her in this part.
But the suspense and the beautiful writing doesn't let me deduce any stars from this one.
but apart from the beggining when erin tells her husband she found some one else he basicly got dropped, and as much as i love lesfic romance i actualy felt sorry for andrew even if he was kind and conciderate to erin.
i know this sort of thing happens in real life usualy after a long unfullfilled marrage but to just drop the husband as though he was jus a bit part player he wasn't even abusive to her, i do get that poeple change over time but andrew deserved at least some respect.
Such a sweet novel. The struggles that Erin and Brooke went through because they were falling in Love was sad and at the same time sweet. Poor Andrew, he had no idea what was going on around him until the very end. He was a good guy after all. In the realm of HEAs this was one of the good ones!
The depth of these two characters and the way they fought the attraction between them was carefully handled. Brooke and Erin being together artfully described the push pull of their situation. This book kept me wondering what and how they would ever be together. Finally a love story with a real storyline.
At first i was really enjoying the story, but that constant part of Erin saying to herself that she would not leave her husband was so selfish and left Brooke out of the equation.
I liked the chemistry of the two of them, but the fact that Erin was so selfish and never thinking that was just hurting Brooke pissed me.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
It was a nice book, the story did rub me wrong at first because we see Erin getting married and Brooke in a kind of relationship with Sam, Erin's best friend, but after getting into the story I came to realize that Sam's involvement in the story was just a way for Erin and Brooke to meet because after the wedding, we don't see Sam ever again.
I got into the story a few chapters after the weeding and it was a nice reading, fast as well and right into the christmas season spirit.
Inspired by "Imagine Me & You" this holiday story has good points and does have similarities to the movie. However once the women get together the story line becomes a bit unfocused and rambles from scene to scene.
Erin and Brooke didn't need separate chapters. It drew the story out too much and it became boring. It was evident that Erin was ambivalent about Andrew and getting married but did it anyway "because it was comfortable". I didn't enjoy being within either character's mind.
It’s cute but predictable. It’s describe as ‘imagine me and you’ (which is my favorite movie) meets ‘saving face’, but it didn’t live up to it. Didn’t get that feeling I got when watching those movies... but otherwise a cute love story with a happy ending.
A married woman discovers another person on her wedding day.
Two people meet at a wedding. One of them is single and the other person getting married is starting to realize she maybe marrying the wrong person. As the authors stated think of "Imagine Me and You." Enjoy !
Unlike the movies antics. I truly was moved to read and go thru the trials and trubliations of these two. The family is a nice additional to the story.
It's been a long time since I have read a book completely through on the first read. This book kept me engaged to do so. A little soft on erotica but still a great storyline!
The preview was right. They wrote a Christmas version of the movie Imagine Me and You. This story spanned over a longer period and it did make my cry at one point. Well worth a read.
I really enjoyed A Kind of Miracle by Emma Chamberlain and Blythe Stone. It was a charge of electric chemistry when Brooke and Erin laid eyes on each other, which was definitely a kind of miracle.