Jillian Magee, a fifth-grade math teacher who loves Christmas, has a freezer filled with Christmas cookies, all her Christmas gifts wrapped, and the red scarves all knitted for her caroling party. Unfortunately, the universe seems bent on depriving her of joy this season, even when it supplies her with a well-intentioned celestial do-gooder—a quirky female version of Jacob Marley.Tristán Solano, … Marley.
Tristán Solano, famous as Trystan Sol in the rock music world, grew up across the street from Jillian Magee, his first friend at five years old and the woman he left in order to grab the brass ring. After eight years with a popular group, earning more money than he can possibly spend in one lifetime, he longs for his old, uncomplicated life. As Christmas approaches, he leaves the band and heads home with his four-year-old daughter.
Will Jillian have her heart broken again, or can she and Tristán overcome the past and keep each other warm this Christmas?
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All Hearts Come Home for Christmas The Green Earth Christmas Series, Book 1 by Annalisa Russo
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Jillian is all ready for Christmas, house decorated and cookies baked.
No family will be visiting, NO snow and no now no boyfriend.
She’s a teacher for 10 year old kids. Story also follows Tristan, a musician who according to the tabloids he’s leaving the profession and heading back home.
The weird dream: Oprah and several others over the time show up in her house and it’s her job to make sure Jillian gets through Christmas. She gets to see things in a different light for many others in town.
Love hearing how the neighbors, teachers and waitress are all so involved with one another.
She has finally heard what she’s been wanting to hear for years and now she has to say them back but she takes her time thinking about the whole situation.
Love the idea of the Christmas jar and where the money is going to.
Magic and miracles to make the dreams come true.
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A very enjoyable second chance Christmas romance. A book to keep and reread each Christmas season. A feel good story. Romantic. Funny. Caring. Good deeds shared. Nativity. Good characters. Christmas cheer.
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I loved the idea of this book sort of a twist on Scrooge. Characters are fun, book moves quickly and is easy to read. Second chance with your first love.
I would have loved to have ab epilogue to have more of a story ending for Jillie and Tris. I felt this kind of finished sort of halfway and up in the air.
Overall great book
Engaging Christmas Romance!
A delightful start to the Green Earth series by Annalisa Russo. Wonderful heartwarming characters and unique storyline. I love Jillian Magee’s quirky heavenly ‘guide’ who helps Jillian and Tristan get a second chance at love. Sweet, clean romance. Enjoy!
I received an advance copy and am happy to leave my honest review.
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This is the second book that I have read from this author. I actually read the second book of this series first. It was a good thing too. I adored that story (When the Heart Finds Christmas). This story fell a little flat for me. The premise was a great one and I read it in just a few hours. The problem lies in the male protagonist, Tristán Solano. He leaves college right before he graduated for his music. He become the lead keyboardist for a band and hits the big time. Eight years later he comes home with a 3 1/2 daughter Sadie. After seeing his best friend while growing up, Jillian Magee, he realizes he loves her.
The problem for me, the story wasn’t written in a much of a dual POV format. There were just two short sections for his POV and they didn’t give us much to go on. I didn’t understand his actions at all. Just when the story starts to really get good and both Tristán and Jillian are starting to rebuild their relationship, the story just ends! I mean come on! He admits to living with a groupie, Sadie’s mom, on the road but he now realizes he has always loved Jillian?! Now where is the nitty, gritty details? I wanted, no I needed more to really understand him. I will say that I really fell for the character from again reading the second book first.
This is a sweet, clean second chance romance. It really is light on the romance though. We do get to see a character that shows Jillian just how much her actions have affected others in a positive manner. She is not in a positive place like she normally is at Christmas time. Her younger brother and his wife can’t come home for Christmas as they have a newborn. Her parents are on a trip of a life-time celebrating their dual retirement. Melah (not an angel) is sent to show Jillian how important her spirit has touched others. Now that was a nice story to read.
If you want more of a feel-good story, with a touch of romance, then you may enjoy this one. I would highly recommend though to continue the series as the second one is much better in my opinion.
This is a wonderful page turner that features Jillian (Jillie) and her best friends Cleora (Cleo) and Melissa. Jillian can’t believe her eyes, when she opens her door to Tristan Solano and a little girl, that he introduces as his daughter, Sadie. Jillian and Tristan were a couple before he left to become a famous keyboardist with Last Bluff. Why is he back in town? I won’t leave any spoilers, but I will say I’m so glad I got the chance to read this book. I really enjoyed reading about Melah visiting Jillian and taking her on some adventures.
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Book one in The Green Earth Christmas Series a well written short story with a good storyline the story flowed smoothly across the pages. Jillian Magee, a fifth-grade math teacher and Tristán Solano, famous as Trystan Sol in the rock music world and his four year old daughter Sadie’s story of a second chance. Jillian is visited by a female Jacob Marley/Melah made this story for me. I received a free copy of this book via Booksprout and am voluntarily leaving a review.
This was my first book from this author and I really liked it. The Christian element, the clean romance. It was all an amazing, and well put together Christmas book. The characters were so real and personable, you could not help but fall in love with them. The supernatural element was a little bit different at first, but turned out to be a really cool addition. I look forward to reading more from this author.
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All Hearts Come Home for Christmas is the first book in the Green Earth Christmas series by Annalisa Russo. Jillian Magee loves Christmas, but this year it is all falling apart since she will be all alone. Her parents have just left for a dream retirement trip to Italy and her brother, Noah, has a newborn that prevents his family from traveling home from Boston. To make things worse, her new boyfriend has decided to take a tropical vacation to find himself. It’s going to be the worst Christmas ever!
Then, the icing on the cake is her old boyfriend, rockstar Trystan Sol, left his band and moved into his grandmother’s house across the street with his young daughter. But Jillie thinks maybe it won’t be such a bad holiday after all when Tristan comes through for the Christmas program at Jillian’s school and joins in on Jillie’s caroling. Has he had a complete change of heart since his rocking days?
With a little heavenly intervention, Jillie’s Christmas might just turn out to be the best ever. I enjoy this series and do recommend this book.