From the outside, Adrienne has everything any woman could want. However, she knows what real happiness is, and it isn’t having a good job and a condominium. Traveling home to her small Texas town for a friend’s wedding, Adrienne is hit from all sides with the happiness she hasn’t found for herself—her long-married parents, her joyful sister and brother-in-law and their two children, and her … childhood friends. They all think she has it all… all except one.
Trace has been a nemesis since grade school. Always ready with a quip and happy to squabble over even the smallest thing, Adrienne dreaded seeing him when she came back for the wedding. So why does it seem like Trace is the only one who really knows her, who sees her for who she is?
Losing his parents to a plane crash and his uncle to cancer, Trace is not too keen on losing anyone else close to him. If only she didn’t skip town after graduation. He didn’t have time to tell her how he felt. There was a reason behind all his teasing. He loved their banters. It meant spending time with her. He could hear her voice. Now she’s back, but her leaving is inevitable. He’d have to risk his heart by asking her to stay. He can’t take another loss.
Working to save their friends’ wedding brings Adrienne and Trace together. The clock is ticking, and it’s the worst blizzard Lakeshore, Texas has seen in years. Will these two match their friends or end up matched themselves?
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Can Adrienne stop trying to be perfect all the time?
Match-Made Christmas by Daria White is the first book by this author that I have read and it was awesome. I loved how the characters are so very stubborn. That I get since they both have demons that they are trying to keep at bay.
Adrienne Fields
Adrienne Fields is our main female lead, and she is a twenty-eight-year-old romance author living in Los Angeles, California. She is heading home to Lakeshore, Texas, for her best friend’s wedding and to see if being home will recharge her writing abilities. Adrienne is the youngest of two siblings, and she has always felt like she doesn’t belong at home. She has quite a few demons. The fact that her high school sweetheart broke up with her before graduation, and because of that, Adrienne wants to prove to everyone that she can take care of herself and to come back triumphant. She is also very headstrong and likes to pick fights.
Trace Carson
Trace Carson is our main male lead, and he is a twenty-eight-year-old furniture store owner that has lived his whole life in Lakeshore, Texas. He didn’t leave for college or anything which he’s okay with how it has turned out. Trace loves living in the small-town and thought that he was over Adrienne, but he wasn’t. Throughout he tried to deny his feelings, but that wasn’t easy. He is a great guy who took the pulling the girl you likes hair to show you care thing throughout the entire time that he has known Adrienne.
Five Stars for Match-Made Christmas
Match-Made Christmas by Daria White is one of a kind type of books that I love. There is the happily-ever-after ending, but it was the writing that always makes a well-known story. The tale here is boy and girl have known each other all their lives, and it only takes one event to change how they see each other. I liked it so much. I am giving it a five-star rating, and I enjoyed the characters and the banter between Adrienne and Trace. I recommend this book to all you HEA romance readers out there.
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Karen the Baroness
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This is my first read by Daria White and it shows promise.
This should have been a quick and easy read, but it took me a few days to get through it. The characters were okay, but could have been developed more. Adrienne left home to pursue her dream as a writer. Upon returning home for her bestie’s wedding, she begins to realize how much she misses the town and its people. Trace is the best man in the wedding and looking forward to seeing Adrienne again. They grew up together and constantly bickered, in a fun kinda way.
The book is laden with editing issues, mostly missing words, that began to annoy me. Hopefully this will be corrected before release. The book is written in dual pov that I found insightful and easy to follow. The story was sweet and clean, though I wanted the main characters to just open their mouths and say what everyone else already knew!
There were parts of the story that caused me to smile, but the story did not engross me in it. I did not feel an urgency to pick the story up after putting it down. I think this book is a good start though. I would try another book by this author because I see promise of good clean stories, a rarity.
I was given a free copy of this book from Booksprout. My opinion is my own.