- when the family in question lives out in the country. I couldn’t help but wonder what I would do in such a situation, as the plot makes you think.
I also really loved the characters. They just seemed so real! The family ranged in age from a teenage boy to an older uncle with a cane, each with their own charming personality traits. The uncle may have been a bit of an Irish drunk, but he was also a charming rogue with a clever mind. The family was also very real, arguing at first over little things and then pulling together during the crisis. I think that was very realistic.
I also liked the villains, which may seem a bit odd. Scooter was especially memorable. He seemed like a child in many ways, even
if he was an adult thief. He wanted Christmas so badly; the turkey dinner, the decorated tree, the presents… The other thief, however, was a cold-blooded snake ready to spring at any moment, a time bomb waiting to go off.
The book is classified as a romance and there is a subplot involving two characters. I really didn’t see the romance as the central part of the story – the hostage situation is – but it is in there. This book is also pretty clean in terms of romance and there are no steamy scenes to goof up the tense flow of the plot. In this case, I think that is a very good thing indeed!
All in all, I really enjoyed reading this book, as it was filled with lots of tense suspense and scary moments.
