Review: "While It Was Snowing" by Tari Faris

I absolutely loved Tari Faris's Until I Met You earlier this fall, so when I heard she was releasing a Christmas novella, I said, "Yes, please!!!"

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Return to Heritage with this heart warming Christmas novella.

Had Danielle known that delivering a message would land her holding a bouquet of red roses and wearing the first dress of her life, she would not have volunteered.

Danielle Fair has been working at her dad’s mechanic shop since she could talk, and she loves fixing cars. To everyone at the garage, she’s just Dan, one of the guys, and that’s fine by her…after all, without sisters or a mother, Danielle is lost when it comes to girly stuff. However, when she is forced to embrace her inner girly girl at Nate and Olivia’s winter wedding, her makeover wakes up not just the attention of the guys she works with, but also the one man she has secretly loved for some time—her best friend, Gideon Mathews—Danielle is suddenly beset with way too much attention and struggles to figure out who she is underneath it all.

There were always two things Gideon Mathews could count on: his beloved Detroit Lions not making it to the playoffs and Dan Fair being his best friend. But when Dan—no, Danielle—shows up to his sister’s wedding dressed as, of all things, a girl—no, a very beautiful, breathtaking, heart-stopping girl—he isn’t sure what to do with his sudden rush of emotions. Of course, he’s always known she was a girl, but suddenly he can’t keep his eyes, or mind…or heart away from her. Only now every guy in town seems to have the same problem. Did he lose his chance with Danielle by missing what had been in front of him for so long? Or can he convince her to be his by Christmas?

It’s Miss Congeniality goes to a winter wedding in a Christmas Cinderella tale. From snowed-in to snowball fights, Christmas trees to Christmas dances, this story has everything you need for a perfect holiday read.

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What a sweet Christmas novella! Fans of Tari Faris's Restoring Heritage series will love this glimpse into the love story of Gideon Mathews and Danielle "Dan" Fair. (It also would work well as an entry point into Faris's novels ... and I guarantee you'll want to go back and read the others!) It's a sweet friends-to-more story about best friends falling for each other. It was fun to watch Gideon slowly realize his love for Danielle, while she had been pining for him for a while but tried to content herself with friendship.

As always, Faris writes some great chemistry and kisses, and I can't wait to see where these two go in future novels! 4-1/2 stars.

Buy the novella. (Amazon ad)

Read my reviews of Faris's P.S. Goodbye (4-1/2 stars), You Belong With Me (4-1/2 stars), and Until I Met You (5 stars).

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Tari Faris has been writing fiction for more than 10 years. A member of American Christian Fiction Writers and My Book Therapy, she works for My Book Therapy, manages learnhowtowriteanovel.com, and is a 2017 Genesis Award winner. She has an MDiv from Asbury Theological Seminary and lives in the Phoenix, Arizona, area with her husband and their three children. Although she lives in the Southwest now, she lived in a small town in Michigan for 25 years.

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