I've had the privilege to be on Mandi Blake's ARC team for a number of her books and I love how she shows romance amid difficult life situations while pointing to Christ. Though I've not read anything by Tasha Hackett before now, I have to say I love how this book came together!
Read my review below.
The Emma Special by Mandi Blake and Tasha Hacket is a Christian romcom that I adored from page one when the handsome James gave the fairy dressed Emma a ride.
Emma works hard to make ends meet and does an assortment of jobs to pay the bills, but life is a struggle with her knee injury and mom who treats her terribly. Yet Emma is sunshine everywhere she goes.
Emma was James’s high school crush, and when Emma takes a job at his law firm those feelings are renewed and amplified. Things get even more complicated when he offers a marriage of convenience as a solution to provide insurance for her knee surgery.
The set up is perfect for silly and serious moments that propelled the story along while keeping it grounded. One of the highlights was her friends in the kiss and tell book club. They provided her support and it was fun getting to know them. I look forward to reading their stories in this series. The way Faith was woven into the story to supply depth and hope was beautifully done and added so much to the story.
I highly recommend the Emma Special and look forward to reading the other books in the series by these two ladies.
Quotes:
Workplace shenanigans
"Why is your shoe on my desk?"
"Hold, please." She placed him on hold then put the receiver down with no intention of answering.
Within seconds his voice came through the intercom again. "Emma. Why is this tiny metal hair contraption in my coffee cup? And my stapler—" James cut off with laughing. "Did I take all of this from you?
Faith
James sat on the edge of the bed and rubbed the pad of his thumb over her hand. "Do you want me to pray with you?"
Be still her heart. The sweet man wanted to pray with her. Of all the things she'd heard about men from her mother, James was nothing like the rest. Who was this man?
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Blurb:
One hitchhiking fairy. One lawyer late for work. Enter: Confetti.
Emma Glass might pretend to be a princess for birthday parties, but her life is anything but a fairytale. Too bad princess gigs don’t pay into a 401K or provide health insurance—something she desperately needs for an old knee injury.
James Moore’s life changed the day he stopped to give a fairy a ride to book club. Now his high school crush is the new assistant at his law firm, and he’s falling for her all over again.
And when Emma won’t accept his money for knee surgery, he proposes another, totally reasonable solution—marriage.
They couldn’t be more different, and this marriage is supposed to be…convenient. Neither of them is prepared for when it starts to look less like a business agreement and more like happily ever after.
The Emma Special is a Christian, smalltown romance with depth and lots of laughs. The Kiss and Tell series centers around a hilarious group of women who stick by each other through thick and thin and should be read in order.
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