Cursed Miracles 2016 Advent Calendar Bah Humbug edition by Meg Harding Romance eBooks
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Two hundred years ago on Christmas Eve, William Mashinter was frozen in time, cursed by his wife to roam the world on his own, waiting for the love of his life to find him. The love of his life, whom she killed. Time hasn’t healed this wound, and William is tired of the happy holiday and the constant reminders of a love that’s been taken from him. But then the impossible happens, and maybe… maybe he can get a new Christmas perspective.
Brady Gallagher has lived three different lives, always aware of the first and most important, yet unable to find the man who will fill in the missing pieces and let him know he’s not crazy. He encounters him at a work event, of all places, but is he willing to throw everything else to the wind and embrace the miracle laid out before him?
A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2016 Advent Calendar "Bah Humbug."
Cursed Miracles 2016 Advent Calendar Bah Humbug edition by Meg Harding Romance eBooks
Two hundred years ago, William Mashinter and his “secret” lover Brady Gallagher were torn apart by William’s crazed wife. Both Brady and William had managed to evade marriage far longer than either had expected, because back in the 1800’s pretty much all of the young rich “the ton” were expected to make advantageous marriages. William was forced by his father into marrying Jennifer just because it would be good for the family business. William and Brady decide to do what a good portion of other married men do – keep their male lovers in secret.When Jennifer confronts William and Brady about their continued affair they discover that she is holding a grudge for long time over something that was not even their fault. They all are at a Christmas Eve Ball when Jennifer confronts the men and this is when they discover that Jennifer is a witch. As it was a full moon on this particular night when Jennifer put a curse on them it was all the stronger. The curse was that William would always look the age he was then, 28, just as she stabs Grady in the heart Jennifer curse’s him to always remember this life as well as every life he’s lived, every time he is reborn. He will pine for William and he will never have peace until William does ad William will never know peace until he is reunited with Grady again.
Two hundred years later and William still hates Christmas with a passion! William has travelled the world over, several times, looking for Grady and trying to find someone, anyone to lift the curse Jennifer put on him. They can all see it but no-one can lift the curse. Whilst William is attending his work Christmas party he thinks he’s going crazy as he’s almost positive he’s spotted Grady and he’s a chef at the event. Please take the time to read Cursed Miracles to find out what happens to William and Grady after they reunite at the Christmas party.
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Cursed Miracles 2016 Advent Calendar Bah Humbug edition by Meg Harding Romance eBooks Reviews
William and Brady had been together a long time before William married Jennifer. They continued their affair despite the marriage. Jennifer was not an overly kind woman, and William was unhappy in his marriage. Then things went really wrong. Brady ended up dead and William ended up cursed to live a life without Brady. Brady was cursed to live countless lives and remember each, knowing his true love was still out there somewhere. Two hundred years later William hates Christmas. He’s stuck at a work party and thinking of Brady. During his speech one of the caterers drops a tray. When William looks up to see the commotion he sees Brady staring back at him.
This story was charming. William was a vaguely tragic figure who finally gets the love of his life and a time in which they can live together as husbands. You get all the pageantry of a historical tale with all the freedom of a contemporary. My big hang up was the fact it was written in present tense. I found it to be quite distracting and could discern no good reason for it. For me, the tense overshadowed what was otherwise a sweet tale of two people finally getting their lives back on track after waiting multiple lifetimes.
Book – Cursed Miracles
Author – Meg Harding
Star rating - ★★☆☆☆
No. of Pages – 48
Cover – Gorgeous, but misleading.
POV – 3rd person, present tense
Would I read it again – No.
Genre – LGBT, Holiday, Christmas, Paranormal, Witch, Historical-to-Present-Day, Romance
** I WAS GIVEN THIS BOOK FOR MY READING PLEASURE **
Reviewed for Divine Magazine
I have to say, I opted to read this one because it was Meg Harding and after loving Dinner for One, I felt sure that I would love this too. I mean, the blurb was amazing! And it promised so much.
Sadly, for me, it didn't deliver.
In Dinner for One, I didn't even comment on the unusual POV of 3rd person, present tense. It's not something you come across often, but it worked with that book. It didn't work with this one. This story had way too much background, history and needed way more exploration than it was given. This story didn't fit in the 48 pages and that became very evident when half the book was about more telling than showing. At the same time, it read so much more like a 1st person reading, because there were so many thoughts, opinions and personal remarks made during the main text – not even italicised or marked as thoughts – that it became confusing to read. It was basically a 1st person narrative in a 3rd person disguise.
I got frustrated with it really quickly. First off, the entire first 25% of the book is flashbacks. Now, I get why we needed the flashbacks, but couldn't it just have been written like a real story, in various scenes, to show us what happened rather than constantly telling us all the important stuff? It needed more fleshing out, to explore the “suffering” that both William and Brady claimed to have gone through in their 200 years apart, but which we never saw. Not one bit of it.
There's also a real issue of timing. There are two very distinct issue one with the claiming of an era that is historically impossible and the other concerning Brady's lives.
First, at the end of the story, Brady says that they were raised with Victorian ideas. I did a little Googling, after finishing the book, because a lot of the timing issues bugged me so much that I had to discover if I was being stupid. The Victorian Era was from between 1837-1901. If you could back 200 years from 2016 (which is when this book was published, so I'm going by that, since it's billed as a contemporary story), you go back to 1816. Which would be the time that Willian and Brady were punished by the witch, cursed to this existence of the blurb. Which would mean that both men were in their late 20's in 1816 (about 28, I believe William was at the time), so it would be physically impossible for them to be raised with Victorian ideas. In fact, Brady was already “dead” by the time Queen Victoria began her reign and William would have been around forty-nine by then, if he'd kept aging.
Then we come to Brady's lives. Now, he claims that he's only had 3 lives in total Brady, then James and Sidney. So, it's hard to say this is correct unless there are unexplained chunks of years where Brady never existed. This is impossible to tell, since the whole “curse” is never actually explained or explored. William merely mentions that he's investigated how to get rid of it, that no one knows anything about it and that's it. There's no attempt to explain it or how it functions, which is frustrating enough. But even if you're being generous and you say that Brady was reborn immediately, lived for 50 years and died, then was reborn immediately and by that time (1866) the age of living was still the same, to tag on an extra 50 years for that life. By 1916, still wasn't that great, so add on another 50 for that life (that's a count of 3 lives, so far). After those 50 years, it would be 1966, when people were living to the age of around 65. Living to 65 would mean his life was over by 2031, making him approximately 15 years old and in his fifth life. Unless you over-estimate his ability to live a long life and say that he lived 2 lives to approximately 60-70 years of age, which was near impossible in the time of his original death, then there's really no explaining the fact that he's only had those 2 additional lives.
Adding onto the confusing timelines and the lack of historical accuracy, I was disappointed that we didn't get any of Brady's POV as the blurb suggested (by heavily dividing the blurb into the two characters fates and implying that it was all on Brady's shoulders to get them back together). We got absolutely no insight into his life, how he'd dealt with his curse or what he'd gone through and how he really felt for William. The fact that he kept saying he remembered his life as Brady, but didn't feel it made me question everything about their sudden chemistry and urge to get into each other's pants.
The entire relationship felt unrealistic, for me. I completely understand the concept of living 200 years without his soul mate and how that might have chipped away at William's hope to find Brady again, but the way he reacted to the situation was unbelievable. It felt forced and fake, almost on the verge of William not loving Brady enough to keep hope alive. The fact that he kept talking about Brady like he was dead and gone, had been for centuries etc, just made me angry. He'd forgotten or chose to forget the entire point of the curse, which was to have them both in the world, unable to find each other until the “right” time, which was also never explained. When was the right time? Did William have to learn a lesson first? Did they have to do something, say something, feel something or just end up coincidentally in the same place at the same time to break the curse? We don't know.
I didn't connect to either of the main characters, unfortunately. I found William to be a complete idiot, selfish and ignorant. He completely disregarded two coincidental situations, which were glaringly obvious, and chose to believe the lies he told himself rather than spare two seconds to investigate and be proven right. I get that he might get hurt by being proven wrong, but surely after 200 years, the hope that he might just be right, this one time, would be enough to convince him?
Brady, as well, wasn't exactly my favourite. I didn't like the way he “remembered” their life together, but felt none of it. Or the way he was crawling all over William right away, just because of those memories. There was no context, no explanation, no exploration of his character except through William's memories, even though he wasn't that Brady anymore.
I found the curse slightly ridiculous. A more apt fate would have been to have William pining and remembering everything, while Brady had no recollection of William or their time together or their love. Surely that would have been a crueler fate, because it was William she wanted to punish? Instead, it felt like the whole curse was fabricated and forced into a situation where Brady got to be the bold, strong one who brought them back together.
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I hate to say that I really did get this one. I didn't feel any romance, I didn't like the characters or the way it was written and I feel like at least a good 50 pages were chopped out of the story or should have been added, to give us the story that the plot needed to make it believable.
I felt cheated by the cover and blurb, neither of which appropriately represent the story. The cover, as far as I can see, has absolutely no bearing on the story whatsoever. It certainly never happens in the flashbacks or in the text that I read. The blurb also had me convinced that William truly was “frozen in time”, as in completely unable to move on with his life, searching for Brady was the main focus of his life. I also expected at least a partial telling of Brady's story, but that never happened. It even implies that there's a risk to his sanity – though he explains that wasn't the case now, but had been a concern in a past life – and that he has to fight for what he wants. Neither happens.
I was disappointed with the lack of conflict, the lack of romance and the lack of detail and attention given to the story. With historical inaccuracies, lack of explanation for the curse and such, the story fell flat and failed to live up to the high expectations the cover and blurb placed on it.
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Two hundred years ago, William Mashinter and his “secret” lover Brady Gallagher were torn apart by William’s crazed wife. Both Brady and William had managed to evade marriage far longer than either had expected, because back in the 1800’s pretty much all of the young rich “the ton” were expected to make advantageous marriages. William was forced by his father into marrying Jennifer just because it would be good for the family business. William and Brady decide to do what a good portion of other married men do – keep their male lovers in secret.
When Jennifer confronts William and Brady about their continued affair they discover that she is holding a grudge for long time over something that was not even their fault. They all are at a Christmas Eve Ball when Jennifer confronts the men and this is when they discover that Jennifer is a witch. As it was a full moon on this particular night when Jennifer put a curse on them it was all the stronger. The curse was that William would always look the age he was then, 28, just as she stabs Grady in the heart Jennifer curse’s him to always remember this life as well as every life he’s lived, every time he is reborn. He will pine for William and he will never have peace until William does ad William will never know peace until he is reunited with Grady again.
Two hundred years later and William still hates Christmas with a passion! William has travelled the world over, several times, looking for Grady and trying to find someone, anyone to lift the curse Jennifer put on him. They can all see it but no-one can lift the curse. Whilst William is attending his work Christmas party he thinks he’s going crazy as he’s almost positive he’s spotted Grady and he’s a chef at the event. Please take the time to read Cursed Miracles to find out what happens to William and Grady after they reunite at the Christmas party.
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