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Two Kisses for Christmas: A 2-in-1 Christmas Collection
‘Tis the season to fall in love with these two heartwarming novels from USA Today bestselling author Sheila Roberts.
The Snow Globe
Kiley is tired of standing solo under the mistletoe―all she wants this Christmas is someone to spend her nights with, cozy by the fire. With one hopeful shake of an antique snow globe, Kiley begins a dazzling adventure….and discovers that sometimes the impossible becomes possible, and miracles really do come true.
Nine Lives of Christmas
Firefighter Zach is in serious need of help when it comes to finding the right woman. Sweet Merilee, who works in a pet shop, is perfect for him but is too shy to let him know she’s interested. Maybe a matchmaking cat on his ninth life is just what they need to help them find their happily ever after.
“Plenty of holiday cheer.”― Publishers Weekly
The Snow Globe
Kiley is tired of standing solo under the mistletoe―all she wants this Christmas is someone to spend her nights with, cozy by the fire. With one hopeful shake of an antique snow globe, Kiley begins a dazzling adventure….and discovers that sometimes the impossible becomes possible, and miracles really do come true.
Nine Lives of Christmas
Firefighter Zach is in serious need of help when it comes to finding the right woman. Sweet Merilee, who works in a pet shop, is perfect for him but is too shy to let him know she’s interested. Maybe a matchmaking cat on his ninth life is just what they need to help them find their happily ever after.
“Plenty of holiday cheer.”― Publishers Weekly
- GenresRomance
368 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Published October 27, 2020
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About the author
Sheila Roberts
109 books1,984 followersWith fifty books to her credit, both fiction and non-fiction, Sheila Roberts is a frequent USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller - and a fan favorite. Her books have sold over three million copies and have been turned into movies for the Hallmark, Lifetime and Great American Family channels. Before settling into her writing career, Sheila owned a singing telegram company and played in band. When she's not traveling, Sheila can be found hanging out with friends, playing tennis, and, of course, writing and reading. Sometimes she even remembers to post books she's read!
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January 9, 2021
2.5 Stars. Two books in one, the second stronger than the first.
The first book, The Snowglobe was kind of Sisterhood Of the Traveling Pants but with a snowglobe that glimpses the future rather than jeans that magically fit every body. Unaware the book would feature all three friends, I hadn’t anticipated the first character Kiley’s POV coming to an end when it did nor did her story at that point feel like it had been fully fleshed out or closed out, so the sudden shift to Suzanne felt abrupt.
I appreciated that all three stories within Snowglobe covered different emotional territory, one about moving on after her boyfriend cheats with her sister, one about a woman too caught up in having the perfect life, and a third recovering from the loss of her grandmother. However, it seemed like there weren’t enough pages here to do three stories justice.
Kiley’s new romance barely scratched the surface, same goes for the third story when Allison knows someone for approximately five seconds before forming an attachment. There needed to be more development to truly buy into either scenario.
The middle plot had more successful pacing since it’s a take on A Christmas Carol and the overnight transformation is expected. The issue here is in Suzanne’s personality being so very intolerable from start to nearly finish, it really could have used a few sentences sprinkled here and there showing us what her husband loved enough about her to stick around for since I found Suzanne hard enough to live with for the duration of her story and it had me wondering how anyone could have tolerated her for the duration of a marriage.
The second book, The Nine Lives Of Christmas, focused on just one couple and fared better as far as the romance unfolding at a more natural pace. I liked the relative uniqueness of having Ambrose the cat’s POV and his machinations to bring together his new owner firefighter Zach and animal lover Merrilee, although the most engaging parts of the story for me ended up being Zach’s scenes with his mom and his step-sisters.
I mostly enjoyed this second story and I did think the concept of The Snowglobe was interesting even if the execution didn’t quite pull it off, however, in both novels my enjoyment was frequently undermined by judgments from the characters. I get that it made sense in The Snowglobe for Suzanne’s character to think that way, but it didn’t really make sense to me that nearly everyone in both books judged women for wearing form-fitting clothes, they noted how unattractive non-thin bodies are, and they shamed poor people for their shabby clothes and tacky décor, I honestly can’t recall anyone in these two books who struggles financially not being criticized for either their appearance or their home.
It would be one thing if these judgments popped up in just one narrow-minded POV, but it happened with the majority of characters and so frequently that it almost felt like recurring themes. I get that the world is full of people who think this way and even those who aim for kinder thoughts have moments where we think or say petty things, everyone has their flaws and I don’t expect fictional characters to all be super nice and open-minded, either, in fact that would probably be boring, but more balance in perspective would have been very welcome, it would have been good to hear a character point out that what a woman wears tells you nothing about who she is inside, it would have been good to hear someone recognize that beauty isn’t only found in thin bodies and for a character to notice that there are plenty of people out there who maybe don’t have a lot of money but they have plenty of creativity and style.
The first book, The Snowglobe was kind of Sisterhood Of the Traveling Pants but with a snowglobe that glimpses the future rather than jeans that magically fit every body. Unaware the book would feature all three friends, I hadn’t anticipated the first character Kiley’s POV coming to an end when it did nor did her story at that point feel like it had been fully fleshed out or closed out, so the sudden shift to Suzanne felt abrupt.
I appreciated that all three stories within Snowglobe covered different emotional territory, one about moving on after her boyfriend cheats with her sister, one about a woman too caught up in having the perfect life, and a third recovering from the loss of her grandmother. However, it seemed like there weren’t enough pages here to do three stories justice.
Kiley’s new romance barely scratched the surface, same goes for the third story when Allison knows someone for approximately five seconds before forming an attachment. There needed to be more development to truly buy into either scenario.
The middle plot had more successful pacing since it’s a take on A Christmas Carol and the overnight transformation is expected. The issue here is in Suzanne’s personality being so very intolerable from start to nearly finish, it really could have used a few sentences sprinkled here and there showing us what her husband loved enough about her to stick around for since I found Suzanne hard enough to live with for the duration of her story and it had me wondering how anyone could have tolerated her for the duration of a marriage.
The second book, The Nine Lives Of Christmas, focused on just one couple and fared better as far as the romance unfolding at a more natural pace. I liked the relative uniqueness of having Ambrose the cat’s POV and his machinations to bring together his new owner firefighter Zach and animal lover Merrilee, although the most engaging parts of the story for me ended up being Zach’s scenes with his mom and his step-sisters.
I mostly enjoyed this second story and I did think the concept of The Snowglobe was interesting even if the execution didn’t quite pull it off, however, in both novels my enjoyment was frequently undermined by judgments from the characters. I get that it made sense in The Snowglobe for Suzanne’s character to think that way, but it didn’t really make sense to me that nearly everyone in both books judged women for wearing form-fitting clothes, they noted how unattractive non-thin bodies are, and they shamed poor people for their shabby clothes and tacky décor, I honestly can’t recall anyone in these two books who struggles financially not being criticized for either their appearance or their home.
It would be one thing if these judgments popped up in just one narrow-minded POV, but it happened with the majority of characters and so frequently that it almost felt like recurring themes. I get that the world is full of people who think this way and even those who aim for kinder thoughts have moments where we think or say petty things, everyone has their flaws and I don’t expect fictional characters to all be super nice and open-minded, either, in fact that would probably be boring, but more balance in perspective would have been very welcome, it would have been good to hear a character point out that what a woman wears tells you nothing about who she is inside, it would have been good to hear someone recognize that beauty isn’t only found in thin bodies and for a character to notice that there are plenty of people out there who maybe don’t have a lot of money but they have plenty of creativity and style.
January 1, 2021
I bought this book for the Nine Lives of Christmas story, as a romance told from a cat's perspective intrigued me. I wasn't looking for high-brow literature, just something festive to read on my holiday break. I did really love the parts with the cat, but other than that the story fell flat for me. The characters both took a long time to develop, and Merilee was especially whiny and frustrating to watch. The story dragged and then the last few chapters really picked up, feeling far too rushed. The unique perspective of the cat could have been played up more in the end, too.
I don't regret picking this up, and I do plan to try the snow globe story next holiday season, but I did close the book feeling disappointed by the love story itself.
I don't regret picking this up, and I do plan to try the snow globe story next holiday season, but I did close the book feeling disappointed by the love story itself.
December 14, 2020
The Snow Globe
A super cute story about a magic snow globe. It really reminded me of the Christmas magic that everyone talks about. Really cute and sweet.
The Nine Lives of Christmas
Not as good as the first story. Told from the point of view of a cat on his ninth life. The cat tries to bring to two people together. It was rather drawn out, but in the end the pair end up together and even the cat is reunited with a mate from another life.
A super cute story about a magic snow globe. It really reminded me of the Christmas magic that everyone talks about. Really cute and sweet.
The Nine Lives of Christmas
Not as good as the first story. Told from the point of view of a cat on his ninth life. The cat tries to bring to two people together. It was rather drawn out, but in the end the pair end up together and even the cat is reunited with a mate from another life.
December 2, 2025
Wow. These were bad.
Snow Globe: Misleading summary. Kiley's story was gone in a flash, Suzanne was bitter AF then had miraculous overnight change, Alison got literally nothing out of it
Nine Lives: wanted to read because I love the Hallmark movie, but wow. The movie kept only the names of Zach, Marilee, Blair and the cats' names and sort of their jobs. Nothing else was really similar and I didn't really like them
Snow Globe: Misleading summary. Kiley's story was gone in a flash, Suzanne was bitter AF then had miraculous overnight change, Alison got literally nothing out of it
Nine Lives: wanted to read because I love the Hallmark movie, but wow. The movie kept only the names of Zach, Marilee, Blair and the cats' names and sort of their jobs. Nothing else was really similar and I didn't really like them
December 28, 2022
Both of these stories were okay. I liked them both but I wasn't a huge fan. I had watched The Nine Lives of Christmas as a Hallmark movie and loved it, but figured I wouldn't enjoy the book as much (this happens a lot when I watch the movie before reading the book...). I did like how magical The Snow Globe was and really liked a few of the characters.
November 26, 2020
The first story - Snow Globe - was okay, but I stopped reading after the snow globe was passed on to another character I didn't care for. The second story was okay, a bit odd, but readable.
March 7, 2021
Nice stories. Kind characters. Feel good endings.
December 27, 2021
3.5 stars!
December 11, 2023
First book had a cute concept of a snow globe but a sister betraying another sister doesn't set well with me personally. The second story about CATS was Awesome so I'm giving this book a 4 rating.
December 17, 2024
A couple of cute stories. Not my favorite Christmas stories but they were cute nonetheless.
August 1, 2023
Two good Christmas stories. Four couples have help finding each other. The first 3 from an antique snow globe, one from a cat. Both of them could have been a little longer, giving us more about each couple.
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