I read this Christmas book from the Pink Carnation Series last since I don't care much for Christmas stories. I was amazed and happy to discover that it had very little to do with actual Christmas and was, in fact, a story that picked up Turnip Fitzhugh as a main character. He has appeared in many of the books as a side character. He is portrayed as not too smart and clumsy, but handsome and large and very rich. This book shows his really nice and caring side. I think that he suffered a head injury as a boy from falling out of a tree because he seems to have short term memory problems and difficulty with judgement. This, plus his clumsiness could be from that fall. I think Lauren Willig put that detail in there on purpose. I was glad that he met Arabella who could appreciate him as he had been the butt of jokes for quite a few books.
I read this one out of order, but found that I appreciated it more because I already knew some of the characters from the later books. I hope that the author will write a reunion book at some point with the characters.
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