Reviewed by Martine Bates Fairbanks, Ed.D.
Terri Blackstock. Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson, 2018. 304 pp. (Hardback).
I absolutely love Terri Blackstock’s books, and I think I loved “Catching Christmas” most of all. Who cares if I say that every time I read a new one? She’s just good.
In this book, master-chef-turned-cab-driver Finn Parrish takes turns narrating chapters with new lawyer Sydney Batson. Finn enters Sydney’s life by picking up Sydney’s grandmother for a doctor’s appointment and discovering the older lady is confused and probably very sick. Sydney meanwhile is fighting to retain her stressful job amid threatened layoffs and trying to care for her grandmother at the same time.
A recipe for disaster? It certainly appears so — for both Finn and Sydney, not to mention poor, sweet (and determined, once she begins to recover) Miss Callie. As Christmas draws nearer, the plot continues to thicken.
Although this book is clearly a romance, it is not just a romance. It is more complex, with threads of wrong, regret and redemption running through it — and, of course, Christmas!
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