Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for her baby's father. David Rhodes had said he'd be in town. But he is...
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Jan 01, 2009
Vannessagrace
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A Cedar Cove Christmas is a tender story about a typical romance gone array. Mary Jo falls in love and gets pregnant with the wicked David Rhodes who left the residents of Cedar Cove with a bad taste in their mouths for his scandalous behavior. Mary Jo’s brothers vows to go to Cedar Cove to find David Rhodes and make him do right by their sister. Not wanting to disrupt David Rhodes and his family’s holiday by warning them of her brothers intention, she travels to Cedar Cove alone to ward off tr
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Apr 02, 2011
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Only because I'm reading the whole series am I reading this. Otherwise the description alone is gag worthy! as she plays on TOO MANY religious christmas eve events. (ie pregant Mary Josephine Wyse, no room at the inn, 3 wyse men arriving, living in a room over the stables with a donkey and camel are housed, etc.) Sounds so cheesy and ridiculous!
<spoiler>Oh Lord! She gave birth in a barn. There was a camel, a donkey, a lamb and sheep. Grace's grandson had to be the little drumme More...
<spoiler>Oh Lord! She gave birth in a barn. There was a camel, a donkey, a lamb and sheep. Grace's grandson had to be the little drumme More...
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Dec 11, 2008
Stacy
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I got this book for my birthday (in October), and "saved" it to read during the holiday season. I was not disappointed! I have liked all of the Cedar Cove books that I've read, and this one picks up after book 8 and has a wonderful Christmas theme.
MaryJo Wyse is pregnant and looking for the baby's father in Cedar Cove. Oddly enough, she has three brothers (the Wyse men) and ends up taking refuge in a barn that happens to be housing animals for the local church's live nati More...
MaryJo Wyse is pregnant and looking for the baby's father in Cedar Cove. Oddly enough, she has three brothers (the Wyse men) and ends up taking refuge in a barn that happens to be housing animals for the local church's live nati More...
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Jan 13, 2012
Homewood Public Library
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Mary Jo Wyse finally realized that the man she had fallen in love with and the father of her developing baby had lied to her repeatedly and had no intention of being responsible for her or the baby. Two weeks before her due date she went to Cedar Cove to meet his parents, Ben and Charlotte Rhodes ,because he said he would be there. When she arrived in town she was unsuccessful in her search for the grandparents of her baby. She became very light headed and weak so 911 was called. After checking
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Dec 09, 2010
Martha
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Summery: Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wise arrives in Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for her baby’s father. David Rhodes had said he’d be in town. But he isn’t. Which leaves Mary Jo stranded, pregnant and alone. And there’s no room at the local inn .
So Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her nearby ranch. She and her husband, Cliff, have a houseful of guests but offer her a room over their stable (currently sheltering the animals—including a donkey and camel—for Cedar Cove’s Nativity More...
So Grace Harding brings Mary Jo home to her nearby ranch. She and her husband, Cliff, have a houseful of guests but offer her a room over their stable (currently sheltering the animals—including a donkey and camel—for Cedar Cove’s Nativity More...
Dec 08, 2010
Loralee
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I love Debbie Macomber books. A recent Hallmark movie based on one of her Christmas books inspired me to go to the library and look for another one of her Christmas stories. Although this one was enjoyable, I probably would have enjoyed it more if I was familiar with the Cedar Cover characters. I have not yet read this particular series.
Mary Jo Wyse finds herself very pregnant close to Christmas. The father of her baby, David Rhodes turned out to be a lying, sneaky scoundrel who is More...
Mary Jo Wyse finds herself very pregnant close to Christmas. The father of her baby, David Rhodes turned out to be a lying, sneaky scoundrel who is More...
Jun 03, 2010
Kathy
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Christmas miracle...
Mary Jo, younger sister of 3 brothers (who own/run Wyse auto repair) who legally raised her after their parents died, and were too protective... , eager to be on her own, and prove she's grown up... susceptible to unsavory men...
Meets David Rhodes (Charlotte's Will's no good with money or ethics son), and now she's pregnant... and in 2 weeks the baby is due, and she finally, fully understands the unworthiness & lies of David...
the brot More...
Mary Jo, younger sister of 3 brothers (who own/run Wyse auto repair) who legally raised her after their parents died, and were too protective... , eager to be on her own, and prove she's grown up... susceptible to unsavory men...
Meets David Rhodes (Charlotte's Will's no good with money or ethics son), and now she's pregnant... and in 2 weeks the baby is due, and she finally, fully understands the unworthiness & lies of David...
the brot More...
Jan 05, 2012
Melissa
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A touching book about the miracle of a baby born on Christmas Eve. Mother-to-be Mary Jo Wyse goes to Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve in search of the baby's father David Rhodes. David had lied to Mary because he wasn't in Cedar Cove for Christmas. His parents Ben and Charlotte had left town and wouldn't be back until Christmas Day. Mary wanted to tell David's family about the baby instead of her brother's Linc, Mel, and Ned. Grace Harding the librarian and lifelong best friend of Oliva Griffin steps
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Dec 19, 2010
Hannah
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Review originally published on my blog: Snuggle Up and Read (http://nurseatkins.blogspot.com/2010/12/...)
I went against my usual code of not reading series out of order soley with this book because it was a Christmas book. I have to say that I shouldn't have because I didn't enjoy the novel as much I think I would have had I been familiar with Cedar Cove.
I thought this was a cute retelling of the Christmas story in a modern sense. The different ways the characters are por More...
I went against my usual code of not reading series out of order soley with this book because it was a Christmas book. I have to say that I shouldn't have because I didn't enjoy the novel as much I think I would have had I been familiar with Cedar Cove.
I thought this was a cute retelling of the Christmas story in a modern sense. The different ways the characters are por More...
Apr 04, 2011
BJ Rose
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This is a corny but cute modern telling of the first Christmas. Mary Josephine Wyse is unmarried and heavily pregnant with no daddy in sight, so she sets off for a small town – Cedar Cove – where he said he’d be spending Christmas with his parents. But the parents aren’t home & there’s no room in any of the inns, but a good-hearted woman puts her up in an apartment above the barn. The barn houses an ox and a lamb and a bad-tempered camel in addition to the horses (the town does a live manger sce
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Oct 27, 2010
Donna
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Mary Jo Wyse comes to Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve looking for the father of her child, David Rhodes. David is the son of Ben Rhodes, who is married to Charlotte Jefferson. David has a long history of not being the most honest guy in the world. Money problems and everything keeps him from being trustworthy. He can smooth talk you, but don't give him anything.
Mary Jo's 3 brothers meanwhile find that she has left home in search of David, so they go to Cedar Cove also, in search of M More...
Mary Jo's 3 brothers meanwhile find that she has left home in search of David, so they go to Cedar Cove also, in search of M More...
Nov 12, 2010
Annalisa
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The fact that I have all brothers made this book very endearing to me. I really enjoyed it and every way that the author tied this story into the Bible story of the birth of the Savior.
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Mary Jo Wyse, the protagonist of this trite little throwaway, is extremely pregnant. She sets out for Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve to hunt down her child's delinquent dad, David. Hot on her trail are her three overprotective brothers (the three Wyse men—get it?), determined to More...
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Mary Jo Wyse, the protagonist of this trite little throwaway, is extremely pregnant. She sets out for Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve to hunt down her child's delinquent dad, David. Hot on her trail are her three overprotective brothers (the three Wyse men—get it?), determined to More...
Jul 05, 2011
Jess
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I'm really not sure how I feel about A Cedar Cove Christmas. There are so many things about it that I can readily say I did not enjoy, but then there are things that I did. I think the biggest turn on and off for me was the fact that the story was a retell of the first Christmas; it was light and warm in a modern setting, yet corny.
The heroine, Mary Jo Wyse, is pregnant and currently not on speaking terms with her (ex)-boyfriend. She's alone, in a town she's never been in before and More...
The heroine, Mary Jo Wyse, is pregnant and currently not on speaking terms with her (ex)-boyfriend. She's alone, in a town she's never been in before and More...
Jan 27, 2009
Lachelle
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Dec 10, 2008
Diane
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Every year I look forward to reading a few Christmas themed books. Debbie Macomber is not an author I read (I only tend to read her Christmas books). A Cedar Cove Christmas this years book was a disappointment. It was just so predictable, that you could have just read the dust jacket and figured out the story.
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Mary Jo Wyse who is very pregnant goes to Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for David Rhodes, her baby's father. He told Mary Jo he'd be in tow More...
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Mary Jo Wyse who is very pregnant goes to Cedar Cove on Christmas Eve, searching for David Rhodes, her baby's father. He told Mary Jo he'd be in tow More...
Oct 25, 2009
Doris
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This sweet story about a tender-hearted older woman helping a young, very pregnant stranger, is a take on the Biblical story of the birth of Christ.
The comparisons are many, even to the 3 brothers giving myrhh, frankincense and gold to the newborn. The story, about a typical office romance gone arry, starts with our herione Mary Jo, stopping her brothers from spinning out of control and trying to find her errant lover and make him marry him.
She no longer wants him, but t More...
The comparisons are many, even to the 3 brothers giving myrhh, frankincense and gold to the newborn. The story, about a typical office romance gone arry, starts with our herione Mary Jo, stopping her brothers from spinning out of control and trying to find her errant lover and make him marry him.
She no longer wants him, but t More...
Mar 07, 2009
Teri
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'A Cedar Cove Christmas by Debbie Macomber
This newest yuletide treat from the queen of Christmas charm is a treasure. When Mary Jo Wyse heads to Cedar Cove by foot ferry to track down the father of her soon-to-be born baby on Christmas Eve, she finds the entire townsfolk waiting eagerly to help, even to young paramedic Mack McAfee. When she finds no room at the inn, a new friend opens up her barn and stable, with live Nativity animals, as her haven. When Mary Jo's three older brot More...
This newest yuletide treat from the queen of Christmas charm is a treasure. When Mary Jo Wyse heads to Cedar Cove by foot ferry to track down the father of her soon-to-be born baby on Christmas Eve, she finds the entire townsfolk waiting eagerly to help, even to young paramedic Mack McAfee. When she finds no room at the inn, a new friend opens up her barn and stable, with live Nativity animals, as her haven. When Mary Jo's three older brot More...
Jan 06, 2009
Jen
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I have read all of the cedar cove books (8 so far), so i had to read this christmas one that went with the series.
I like it, but not as much as the regular books in the series.
Marjo jo (a new character) is 24 & pregnant. It turns out the father is David Rhodes (a fraud... even tried to cheat his own father & stepmother). Mary jo goes to cedar cove to look for David, but as she finds out... he is not there... he lied to her yet again.
Marjo is comforted by Gra More...
I like it, but not as much as the regular books in the series.
Marjo jo (a new character) is 24 & pregnant. It turns out the father is David Rhodes (a fraud... even tried to cheat his own father & stepmother). Mary jo goes to cedar cove to look for David, but as she finds out... he is not there... he lied to her yet again.
Marjo is comforted by Gra More...
Jan 14, 2011
Bronwyn
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It’s Christmas Eve and Mary Jo Wyse goes to Cedar Cove looking for the father of her unborn child but finds that he is not in town.
The local librarian, Grace Harding takes Mary Jo under her wing after she has a dizzy spell and offers her a room for the night, above the stable at her ranch. Mary Jo’s 3 brothers have come looking for her but take their time finding the ranch as they get very lost finding the place.
In the meantime with the help of a local paramedic Mac McAfee Ma More...
The local librarian, Grace Harding takes Mary Jo under her wing after she has a dizzy spell and offers her a room for the night, above the stable at her ranch. Mary Jo’s 3 brothers have come looking for her but take their time finding the ranch as they get very lost finding the place.
In the meantime with the help of a local paramedic Mac McAfee Ma More...
Dec 29, 2009
Erin
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A light, sweet read. Basically a modern version of the Nativity story. Nominally a romance, although that's the weakest part of the plot. The heroine, Mary Jo, is 23 & very pregnant. Her brothers--the 3 Wyse men--follow her to Cedar Grove with the intent to find the father of her baby & make him marry her (which she really does not want). But they get lost on the way there. Meanwhile, Mary Jo has been taken in for the night by one of Macomber's familiar characters, Grace Harding, because t
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Dec 08, 2010
Debi
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Really enjoyed this book. I really got into the story and understood what Mary Jo went through with coming home pregnant and having to deal with her 3 brothers and then trying to force marriage on her and the father of the baby. I was so happy she took her own situation in her hands before her brothers did because if she hadn't she would have never meet Mack, Grace and all the Hardings. A really open your door to your neighbor(stranger) and help them out story. :D!!! Can't wait to read the next
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Dec 02, 2011
Linnea
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The story was clever with a "re-telling" of the Christmas story, but I listened to it on CD and I really disliked the voice reading it, especially when she tried to do deep male voices. They just sounded whiny and annoying which made it hard to listen to. Plus, she read slowly and the story was quick and should have been read as such. I also kept getting mad at the characters, they were either wimpy or overly-dominant or sugary-sweet, kind of like caricatures and not people with dep
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Nov 22, 2011
Leona
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This book started out with such great potential....but ended up way too silly. Really the three Wyse brothers trying to find the star. Come on Debbie, your readers deserve better than that! The author could have done so much more with a difficult topic: a young girl seduced by an older womanizing man with very little redeeming qualities. I almost gave up on the entire series after reading this book. It felt like the author just wrote the book to get another Christmas edition and to make a
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Jul 27, 2011
Ronald
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Debbie Macomber looks to be a nice person, but this has got to be the corniest book I've ever read. From the very beginning she obviously contrives to re-create the Christmas story, including the three brothers of the mother with a business called "Three Wyse Men"! The story might be entertaining to the junior crowd, but it probably is not appropriate for them either — the mother is not a virgin and the baby's father is a true cad. This novel came to my attention from its brief appeara
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Nov 27, 2011
Erin
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Trying another Christmas book. I hope this one is better than the last couple of books that I have read. It was!
This is a thinly vieled re-telling of Christ's birth. Mary Jo Wyse is pregnant and not married. Her three Wyse brothers are mad about the situation. She goes in search of her ex-lover and ends up staying in a barn because there is no room at any of the motels. She ends up giving birth in the manager surrounded by animals.
Still, it made me cry and kept my intere
This is a thinly vieled re-telling of Christ's birth. Mary Jo Wyse is pregnant and not married. Her three Wyse brothers are mad about the situation. She goes in search of her ex-lover and ends up staying in a barn because there is no room at any of the motels. She ends up giving birth in the manager surrounded by animals.
Still, it made me cry and kept my intere
Dec 27, 2008
Marie
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The back of the dust cover says, "What would the holidays be without a new Christmas story from Debbie Macomber?" For the past number of years I, too, have tossed in a Macomber book for holiday reading. Easy, positive reading. Always a pleasure and a joy. This season's is a modern spin on elements from the original Christmas story. I found myself rather happily amused at Macomber's creativity as she worked in the elements, i.e. fireworks to lead the Wyse men to the baby.
Dec 20, 2010
Karen
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Nov 03, 2009
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Dec 15, 2008
Michelle
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This story was okay. It was sort of corny how the author tried to fit the characters with the Nativity, like the heroine having three brothers with the last name of Wyse. Get it...three Wyse men? Sheesh. But it was a light read and the theme was warm and fuzzy. So if you like hot cocoa by the fire type books, this is one of them. Probably the best part was the scene where she has her baby. And the ending was kinda nice. But there was no satisfied SIGH at the end for me.
