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Home in Time for Christmas

by Heather Graham (Goodreads Author)

3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 · rating details · 833 ratings · 140 reviews

Centuries ago, by a scaffold in Manhattan, rose petals drifted gently to the ground......like snow on a wintry Massachusetts night. Melody Tarleton is driving home for Christmas when a man--clad in Revolutionary War-era costume--appears out of nowhere, right in the path of her car. Shaken, she takes in the injured stranger, listening with concern to Jake Mallory's fantasti...more

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Published October 27th 2009 by Mira (first published October 14th 2009)

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Mar 12, 2011 Highland-dreamer rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was disappointed with this book. The premise sounded good, and I love time travel romances, so I thought this was a good bet. I am all for suspending reality a little, don't get me wrong, but one crucially important fact about the time period was SO OFF, I felt embarrassed for the author. For clarification, the US Constitution was written in 1787. The Declaration of Independence was written in 1776, followed by the Articles of Confederation (and the final draft of those came a few years later-...more

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Mar 19, 2013 Sigrun rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: christmas, family, history, contemporary, historical-romance, hardcover, time-travel, revolutionary-war

When I first started reading this author's books many years ago, I truly liked the light, airy stories which did not take a lot of thought.

Unfortunately, the books now contain so many mistakes in grammar, vocabulary, in sentence structure that all I feel like doing is giving up on this author's books. I know that many readers do not give a hoot about the problems I mentioned, but for readers like me, who speak and write at least two or three languages with enough accuracy to be able to teach the...more

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Jan 23, 2011 Helena rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: contemporary, time-travel

Tis the season to believe in miracles and love and Heather Graham Pozzessere delivers both with this delightful present in Home In Time For Christmas.
Graham is a prolific best-selling author of several genres from romance and paranormal to romantic suspense so it was a pleasure to find Home In Time For Christmas that combines her historical romance roots in a contemporary with a paranormal (time travel) element.
This unique plot for a Christmas story captivated me from the start with the collidin...more Tis the season to believe in miracles and love and Heather Graham Pozzessere delivers both with this delightful present in Home In Time For Christmas.
Graham is a prolific best-selling author of several genres from romance and paranormal to romantic suspense so it was a pleasure to find Home In Time For Christmas that combines her historical romance roots in a contemporary with a paranormal (time travel) element.
This unique plot for a Christmas story captivated me from the start with the colliding worlds of a patriot soldier about to be hanged and a 21st century woman returning home to her family in New England. The two intersect on a stretch of road Melody Tarleton is driving on her way to Boston to celebrate Christmas with her family. When Jake Mallory appears in her headlights dressed in Revolutionary-era garb the magic begins.
Concerned for his well-being and complete disorientation, Melody brings Jake home to recuperate while she tries to locate his family. Fortunately, her parents, Mona and George are grown up hippies welcoming all ideas and people into their world which is a direct contrast to their more cynical daughter.
Graham’s trademark of tight plotting and sensual characters allows for suspension of disbelief as readers are immediately plunged into the week of Christmas while the Tarleton family works to make sense of Jake who in turn, tries understand his apparent time travel through a hangman’s noose and he and Melody fall in love.
Sensing something amiss with their unusual houseguest (though not alarmed), Melody’s parents undertake their own rescue operations when Mona discover diaries from the Revolution that harbor clues about him while George – an inventor – continues working on an invention to harness energy and open a portal in their backyard. The right amount of humor, action and magic mixed in with just enough of the ‘what if’ permit readers to consider the possibilities.
With only 48 hours available to travel through the portal to his own time, Jake wrestles with his decision to do so. When Melody’s friend Mark shows up, the tension is ratcheted up as she must decide between Jake and Mark knowing Jake is determined to return to the 18th century even as their relationship progresses.
As the group works feverishly to unravel the time portal and clues about their Revolutionary War soldier, Jake’s sister Serena’s diaries reveal the story of her journey to New York in an attempt to free her brother with the last means available to her: rose petals, potions and ancient spells. But an ending has yet to be written. Precipitous action by Melody and Mark upend the time continuum sending each to ultimately understand and find their respective destinies.
Humor is littered throughout the book as Jake tries to make sense of the 21st century and the unconventional Tarleton family conspires to find a way to get everyone back where they belong. Melody’s brother Keith is a delightful foil to his family and Jake’s sense of duty and honor are palpable. This works thanks to a total suspension of reality and enchanting belief in magic and Christmas.
A light-hearted read that provides enough emotion with holiday flair adding up to a nice escape during the hustle and bustle of the holidays. Put this book on your list and don’t think twice!
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Nov 28, 2010 Carol rated it 3 of 5 stars

Melody Tarleton is driving to her parents in Gloucester, Massachusetts on a snowy night on roads with black ice when her car spins and hits a man in the road. She gets out to help and finds him dressed in Revolutionary War costume.
He tells her his name is Jake Mallory and that he was standing on a gallows about to be hung for treason by British soldiers. Melody gets him into her car which he is fascinated by and tries to think what she should do. He could be a madman and while Melody knows she...more

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Dec 09, 2009 Shannon rated it 1 of 5 stars

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. Not good. Not good at all. The premise is interesting and fun: Jake Mallory, Revolutionary War soldier, is about to be hanged as a traitor. At the last moment, his sister uses magic to transport him away from the gallows, and he lands in present-day Gloucester, where he meets Melody Tarleton. She takes him to her home after hitting him with her car, but because he insists he's from 1776 she's convinced he has amnesia, a concussion, or is perhaps crazy.

I love this kind of story, and can easily su...more Not good. Not good at all. The premise is interesting and fun: Jake Mallory, Revolutionary War soldier, is about to be hanged as a traitor. At the last moment, his sister uses magic to transport him away from the gallows, and he lands in present-day Gloucester, where he meets Melody Tarleton. She takes him to her home after hitting him with her car, but because he insists he's from 1776 she's convinced he has amnesia, a concussion, or is perhaps crazy.

I love this kind of story, and can easily suspend disbelief if the writing is good. But this was just not good. Where was the editor? Where was the proofreader? At least twice, "it's" was used in place of the correct "its." And "who's" in place of "whose." At one point, Jake, whose stay in the 18th century ended in 1776, began lecturing on the events surrounding the drafting of the Constitution, which wasn't drafted until 1787. And several times the characters discuss Wicca, something that Jake knows all about despite the fact that Wicca is a modern, 20th-century religion.

Also problematic was the pontificating on history, religion, tolerance. Good grief, did Graham write this book for the sole purpose of sharing her beliefs? We're beaten over the heads with lessons on tolerance. Beaten. Over. The head. And the talks about history...I often felt like I was reading a textbook or sitting through a lecture rather than reading a novel. Take for example, the following:

...Melody saw the huge tree that stood on the snow-covered lawn just before the cliffs that rose in back.

"The Christmas tree is actually an old German tradition, right?" she murmured to her father.

"Yes," George said. "The first ones apparently showed up in several towns at the same time, in front of guildhalls, I believe. There's a German church record of one being erected in the mid-1500s"

"Ah, but there was big trouble regarding trees for many years and in many places," Mona said. "Some of the stricter church folk back then saw them as a pagan symbol. The time of our Christian holidays revolves around the ancient dates of the Roman Saturnalia and winter solstice of the druids," Mona said.

Did your eyes just glaze over as you read that? Mine sure did. This has zero bearing on the story and appears to have been added so that Graham could simply regurgitate research that she'd done. And yes, in that last paragraph, that's not my typo; "Mona said" is there twice. Just in case we fell asleep while reading and forgot who was talking, I guess.

Sadly, the characters were almost entirely dull, silly, or stereotyped. The wacky Wiccan mother, the scientist father who blows things up in the workshop, the younger brother with whom Melody is constantly bickering, despite both being in their 20s. Jake is kind and polite, but he has almost no difficulty assimilating into the 21st century. Again, with competent writing a suspension of disbelief is not only possible but fun. Here, it just didn't happen. There's no chemistry between Melody and Jake, making it impossible to buy a romance between the two.

Finally, and absurdly (because this book wasn't silly enough already), in the end we learn that the gateway through which individuals can time-travel - conveniently located in Melody's parents backyard, which also happens to be Jake's yard in the 18th century - is open at both sunrise and sunset on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. This leads to a good deal of back-and-forth between centuries, and loads of hand-wringing: "Oh, no! Mark (Melody's ex-boyfriend) went through the portal instead of Jake! We only have three more times to try!" "Oh, no! Mark is back, but now Melody went through the portal instead of Jake! Only two more times to try!" And so on. I found myself skimming over huge sections, just waiting for something to finally happen, for goodness sake. Something that I'd care about. No luck.

I'm a sucker for Christmas romances. A total sucker. And I'll forgive a lot in order to get my holiday fix. But this was just unforgivable.(less)

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Dec 10, 2010 Susan rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: time-travel

I don't know if I am going through some sort of reading slump, but it seems lately I've been able to finds things to pick apart in the recent books I've read. This being no exception in that while the story sounded really interesting, the author didn't do it justice.

First, while she initially tried to have the 18th century gentleman speak proper English as he probably would have, it seemed like she gave up half way through the book. Then, throughout it all, the modern day heroine kept saying to...more

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Dec 07, 2009 Nely rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: own

This was a light, Christmassy read - with great characters and an ending that leaves you feeling all warm and toasty inside. Exactly what a Christmas story should do.

All the characters were fun, witty and had their own distinct personalities that quickly wormed their way into your heart. Although Melody and Jake were the main characters, there were some supporting characters that were so fun. For one, Melody's parents and her brother were so funny. I loved her mother's love of the season and he...more

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Nov 21, 2012 Michelle rated it 2 of 5 stars

I probably can't very well sum up what I found wrong with this book, haha. The premise is cute and romantic, but the execution is, well, awkward, to say the least. The book was published in 2009, and yet the people talk as though they are in a holiday Lifetime movie from 1998 or something. It's awkward and unrealistic and it just doesn't flow well. Further, the storyline has promised, but that promise goes unfulfilled. It seems like a bunch of quickly-sketched plot points flimsily pieced togethe...more

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Nov 27, 2011 Kimberly rated it 2 of 5 stars

In the beginning: The concept of this book sounds great... I am excited to read where this book can go... Jake appears in the road that Melody is driving on to go home for Christmas. Where did he come from? 1776...

In the middle: I am having a hard time getting into this book... There is no chemistry yet with Melody and Jake... I have been reading this book for days and I am only half way through and finding it hard to pick up to keep reading... I hope it gets better soon!!!

The end: 2/3 of the wa...more

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Dec 05, 2012 Jennifer | Nerdhuffing rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: purchased

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While I didn’t dislike Home In Time for Christmas, it wasn’t without its faults. A very cute Christmas read, if you can step outside of reality for a second – and forget a thing or two you learned in middle school history class.

Home In Time for Christmas centers around Jake and Melody, two people from very different times. Jake, a colonist from the 18th century, abruptly finds himself in 21st century Massachusetts, rather than the end o...more This review is also posted at The Bawdy Book Blog>/a>.

While I didn’t dislike Home In Time for Christmas, it wasn’t without its faults. A very cute Christmas read, if you can step outside of reality for a second – and forget a thing or two you learned in middle school history class.

Home In Time for Christmas centers around Jake and Melody, two people from very different times. Jake, a colonist from the 18th century, abruptly finds himself in 21st century Massachusetts, rather than the end of the noose from which he was dangling, right when Melody hits him with her car on a snowy, slick day. Thus begin a series of “I-don’t-believe-yous” and “This-can’t-be-reals” while Jake just wants to find a way home to his sister, feeling guilty for leaving her behind.

So…I like Christmas romance novels. There is something sweet about them that just makes my heart melt (and it’s hard to do that, no lie). I typically don’t deal well with insta-love in books, but Christmas romances work well for me because the season makes me feel squishy inside, so…I guess I can accept it LOL. Home In Time for Christmas was fun to read; the interplay between Melody and Jake was great, and actually, there was no feeling of insta-love (although timeline-wise, I guess not much time passes, so technically, it all still happens pretty fast) and their verbal sparring was entertaining. I also had a good time reading the repartee between Melody and the rest of her family; they are definitely an odd family, but odd families are always fun at Christmas.

The plot, while obviously not believable, because DUH, time travel isn’t possible as far as I know, was interesting and had a bit of the paranormal, which is something that really speaks to me. So now we’ve got Christmas + romance + paranormal. Should equal win, right?

It didn’t, not quite. Things went along rather swimmingly, with the exception of two things, and they are things I just can’t get past. Remember before how I said forget what you learned in middle school history? Well, in this story, Jake was being hanged in 1776, right after the Declaration of Independence was signed. He tells Melody all about the time period, and also discusses the Constitution. But….the Constitution wasn’t written for more than a decade later! Believe me, I know, I’ve seen it, it lives only about 20 miles from me. It surprises me that not only did the author get this detail wrong, but it passed through the editors and publisher as well.

The other thing that bothered me was the ending. I liked where it ended, but getting there in the last couple of chapters just felt like Graham was dragging it out for the sake of getting a few more words in the book. At one point, I was just rolling my eyes, like, get on with it already. So while I liked the book – a lot really – these two sticking points (and the numerous typos found all throughout the book – Harlequin, what’s up with that, I paid for this thing!) were enough to drop the rating from maybe a 3 ½ to a 2.

That said, I did enjoy it, and I think anyone who enjoys Christmas + Romance will enjoy Home In Time for Christmas, so I still recommend it.(less)

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Dec 26, 2011 Anne Holly rated it 2 of 5 stars

More like 2.5. I had high hopes for this, but the ridiculous heroine and the repetitive events just made it seem like it would never end. Oddly enough, the fantastic premise wasn't a problem for me - I'm willing to give a book the benefit of the doubt, or I wouldn't have read it. But there was no chemistry between the hero and heroine, and that was impossible for me to ignore.

However, the heroine's constant "I'm too sane for this family" crap did get tiring - and then it started to get irritatin...more

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Jan 07, 2011 Barbara rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a wonderful book! Melody Tarleton is on her way home for Christmas. On an icy road in Massachusetts, she hits Jake Mallory with her car who appears out of nowhere. Jake tells Melody that he is a Revolutionary War soldier who, last he remembered, was about to be hanged in New York City; but instead he is now in 21st century Massachusetts. With Jake having nowhere to go, Melody concocts a story and takes Jake home to spend Christmas with her and her family.

While Jake tries to figure out h...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Lisa rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book wasn't exactly like I expected. I thought it would be a quick, steamy, and romantic read, but I was wrong on the steamy part. There were no love scenes or even very much kissing. I've read young adult romances that were steamier than this. The plot of this book wasn't very believable but I guess the concept behind Christmas isn't very believable to some people. I found myself siding with Melody that people can't travel through time and that is just a ridiculous notion. But then I got t...more

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Dec 27, 2009 Wendy rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a wonderful holiday romance with a hint of magic to it.
Melody is driving home for the holidays when she accidentally hits a man in th road wearing colonial dress. When he comes to and he tells her his name is Jake Mallory and he was in the process of being executed by British soldiers during the Revolutionary War, she fears he may have had a loss of memory. She brings him home to her family's Christmas celebration, where he bit by bit proves his story to her family. In the process of t...more

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Dec 06, 2012 Sandy rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2012, christmas-winter-books, time-travel-romance

This book was only ok. The last 50 pages or so bumped it up from a 2 to a 2.5. I didn't really care for the style of writing and the main couple was only alright. She just kept repeating herself for the first half of the book - "Oh my he's crazy... oh dear he must be crazy.... oh bother he probably has a concussion but well I won't take him to the doctor." (I might be paraphrasing a bit lol)
Jake was kinda interesting, but the boy needed at least a lil freak out. I mean popping 200 years into the...more

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Sep 10, 2010 Laura rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2010, romance-paranormal, christmas

2.75 stars

POV: 3rd person: Melody, Jake, Mark
Sensuality: Warm

Jake Mallory is a revolutionary war solider sentenced to be hanged a few days before Christmas. As he falls with the noose around his neck, his adopted sister throws rose petals in the air and then all goes black, but he feels no pain and the next thing he knows, he is in the middle of the road in the 21st century.
Melody Tarleton is startled to see a man in the middle of the snowy road on her way home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. She...more

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Apr 13, 2012 Stitchywoman rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: fantasy, fiction, romance

This book was a great disappointment. I thought the premiss sounded interesting, and it seemed to start off alright but quickly became predictable and sappy. I found the inferences to christianity and paganism disturbing. The author seemed to be trying to convince the reader, or least it seemed the underlining message of the book, that all beliefs are created equal and can live very happily intertwined...magic and the belief in God are all good and can be worshiped together. I also question whet...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Lynette rated it 2 of 5 stars

It started out promising, then just turned into a comedy of errors and huge disappointment. I didn't expect more than an easy read, but the end was beyond ridiculous. I don't know if Ms. Graham just needed to hit a certain page number or what, but any credibility the novel had went out the window. The author clearly is not a time travel fan, or she would have taken more care. She just lets her characters blab about all kinds of modern inventions, and one believes he can help change history.

In a...more

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Apr 02, 2010 Michele rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Dec 27, 2010 Kristi (Books N Beans) rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: family, historical-fiction, holidays, syfy, romance, war

Heather Graham presents a story where a Revolutionary Patriot (Jake) is about to be hanged, when his sister performs some magic and he is transported into the 21st century. There he lands in the middle of a road and is almost hit by Melody, the heroine of our story.

The following story is entertaining, but a touch longer than it needed to be. I enjoyed the characters and I liked how Graham wrote them, for the most part. I found myself not at all sympathetic to Melody, and found her to be quite a...more

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Dec 14, 2011 Katie Kenig rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chicklit

Fun holiday romance with a historical/time travelling twist.

This is a pretty typical, light and cheerful girly novel. It's about falling in love unexpectedly. It's about accepting the person you love, and it's about "doing anything for love". Thematically it isn't very deep. But the family the novel focuses around is sweet and loving and the kind of family most of us want to be from, at least in the ways they relate to one another. The ending is happy, and the setting is suitably traditionally C...more

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Jan 06, 2011 Erika rated it 3 of 5 stars

Typical of most Christmas stories, this book was corny and kind of cheesy. Unfortunately, there was no graphic sex scenes, which is one of my favorite things about this author's writing. So, that disappointed me.

The story was about time-travel. The hero, Jake Mallory, came to present times from 1776. We got to see what our society and technology would be like through his eyes. His reaction to cars, for example was one of wonderment and curiosity. Being a history buff, I found his story fascinat...more

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Dec 25, 2011 Becki rated it 4 of 5 stars

Thanks, Rhonda, for the book recommendation! It was just what I needed to kick off my Christmas break.
While I will say the book was predictable and there were a few curse words sprinkled throughout, that gets all of the negative out of the way. I enjoyed the story and the characters. They were all kind of quirky but definitely in a good way. I still didn’t like Mark at the end, but that’s okay. The rest of them made up for it.
I liked the elements of time travel and the contrast of how values hav...more

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Aug 01, 2012 Diah Didi rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: my-very-first-of, romance, time-travel, 2011, 2012, contemporary, family, fiction, love-the-cover, own, paperback, translation

Kayaknya ini buku pertama Heather Graham yang aku baca. Pertamanya baca versi Inggrisnya di tahun 2011, tapi cuma sekitar seperempat buku, then I stopped. Entah kenapa, waktu beberapa hari lalu ke toko buku, dorongan untuk membeli buku besar, dan aku nyomot ini.
Nggak benar-benar baca ulang, cuma scanning aja, dan mulai baca serius lagi setelah sampe di bagian aku berenti sebelumnya.
If you're looking for something hot and steamy, you got yourself the wrong book. Dari covernya aja it's obvious. It...more

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Dec 11, 2012 Kimberly rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: books-i-own, 2012-bookshelf, books-darren-bought-me, christmas, contemporary-romance, romance

This was the second book that I read for my read-a-thon last weekend in the Goodreads group You'll love this one...!! A book club & more. This was the very first book I've read by the author and I figured I may as well give this book a try since I think I've owned it for somethink like 3 years.

Anyways, the reason I wanted to get this one out of the way was because I wanted to try a new author but I was also craving another holiday romance after I finished A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleyp...more This was the second book that I read for my read-a-thon last weekend in the Goodreads group You'll love this one...!! A book club & more. This was the very first book I've read by the author and I figured I may as well give this book a try since I think I've owned it for somethink like 3 years.

Anyways, the reason I wanted to get this one out of the way was because I wanted to try a new author but I was also craving another holiday romance after I finished A Wallflower Christmas by Lisa Kleypas which was the first book I read for the read-a-thon my review can be found here. Plus I'd heard some really good things about the author so I thought why not?

So the book focuses around Melody, a young woman with a wee bit of an attitude problem whom as she is driving home hits a mysterious stranger (Jake) dressed up in clothes from 1700s. After hitting him she brings him to her family home despite the fact that she thinks he's off his rocker and completely insane or at least suffering from a horrible case of amnesia due to the accident.

However through a series of events it comes to pass that Jake really is a solider from the Revolutionary War who was hanged and disappeared from the noose on Christmas 1776 after his adopted sister uses his mother's magic to transport him to the future. But, while Jake is safe in the future he worries for his sister so he recruits Melody's family to help send him back in time which works except Mark a man that melody was dating previously shows up and bungles their first attempt of 3 I believe. Anyways, 3 attempts later and Melody and Jake make a life for themselves in Melody's time after Mark who mysteriously looks like Jake goes back in time to be with Sarah Jake's sister all in time for Christmas.

I thought that this was a nice twist to the usual time travel fiction that I've read because it has the man coming forward through time and I liked how there was a bit of witchcraft mixed in as well. I liked how it was set during the holidays and I enjoyed the characters of Melody's parents, younger brother, Jake and Sarah but I honestly could not stand Melody or Mark.

I thought Mark was an ass. He was very close minded about other peoples beliefs and I couldn't handle it. I'm pretty sure if he was as real person that I would murder him. He was that annoying. Plus he was trying to be all macho and it didn't make sense to me.

Melody, was a little easier to handle but I still didn't like her so much. She was rude, over the top and very pessimistic and selfish. However, later on in the novel I did start liking her a little more and I think it is because of how she mellowed out a bit because of her love for Jake.

Like I said the plot of the novel was good but I think it could have been executed a little better and the characters could have been more realistic and less annoying. Plus there were one or two plot holes that I thought could have done with a major fix because they didn't make much sense.

I did enjoy the spirit of the novel though and that was about finding love around Christmas and weather it is science, witchcraft or the magic of Christmas the holidays are about being surrounded by the family, friends (and pets!) that you love.

I would recommend this novel to fans of contemporary holiday romances with a clean rating. It was a cute Christmas story that I think can easily be devoured in one sitting (I did it!) under a blanket curled up on the couch with a nice hot beverage. Despite my issues with some things in the book I'm going to check out more of this author's books but I've heard I may have better luck with her non-holiday books so I'll be checking those out first before returning to try another of her holiday romances.(less)

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Aug 25, 2012 Carrie Schor rated it 4 of 5 stars

I liked this book much more than I expected to, and more than other Heather Graham books that I've read. I could not put it down. I read it in practically one sitting. It's about a young woman who hits a man driving home for Christmas as she skids on the ice. The man is dressed in Revolutionary War attire and believes he is actually from that time. He claims that her house is his house. she starts to fall for him, but is he crazy or could he really have traveled in time? Not overly corny.

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Dec 30, 2011 Nathalie S rated it 4 of 5 stars

This was a fun book to read especially at Christmas time. It starts out by Jake Mallory, revolutionary war soldier getting ready to be hung by the British in New York and as he falls through the scaffold's trap, he falls and falls and lands on a country road in Massachusetts when he is struck by Melody Tarleton driving home for Christmas in the 21st century...How to get Jake home back to his sister...Very enjoyable. Lots of twist and turns. Great read especially for the holidays!

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Jan 20, 2013 Weiss rated it 2 of 5 stars

For a while it was ok, never really gripping. I figured out the ending too early on, and was just flipping through to get to it. I didn't like the magic/withcraft/science explanations, if it's not believable why spend a lot of time working on it? Two of the characters had to be semi-witches, and one had to be a mad scientist. I think this detracted from their characters more than helped. The romantic leads needed better motives for their actions.

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Jul 16, 2012 Sarah rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: chick-lit

I love Heather Graham, but I really miss her books like the medieval trilogy and her westerns. this book was okay. It is like someone turned a holiday Hallmark channel movie into a novel. Super syrupy, over the top emotions, and corny dialogue, but a cute quick holiday read. I would not have paid full price for this story and been happy, but it was a buy 1/get 1 novel so it is fine. Not her best work and definitely not a keeper for me.

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Jan 14, 2010 Justin rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: at-library, christmas

There were some slow parts scattered throughout this novel where I found myself itching to flip ahead to find out what happens. But overall, I really enjoyed the story. It's a really sweet love story filled with magic, and little tidbits of United States history. I was initially skeptical of whether I would enjoy the book or not because I don't typically like magic and fantasy but I'm really glad I read it anyway because I was so wrong!

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About Heather Graham

Also published as Heather Graham Pozzessere and Shannon Drake.

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Heather Graham majored in theater arts at the University of South Florida. After a stint of several years in dinner theater, back-up vocals, and bartending, she stayed home after the birth of her third child and began to write, working on short horror stories and romances. After some tria...more

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