1225 Christmas Tree Lane

Cedar Cove, Book 12

By: Debbie Macomber

Narrated by: Sandra Burr

Length: 6 hrs and 13 mins

Publisher's summary

The people of Cedar Cove know how to celebrate Christmas. Like Grace and Olivia and everyone else, Beth Morehouse expects this Christmas to be one of her best. Her small Christmas-tree farm is prospering, her daughters and her dogs are happy and well, and her new relationship with local vet Ted Reynolds is showing plenty of romantic promise. But... someone recently left a basket filled with puppies on her doorstep, puppies she’s determined to place in good homes. That’s complication number one. And number two is that her daughters Bailey and Sophie have invited their dad, Beth’s ex-husband, Kent, to Cedar Cove for Christmas. The girls have visions of a mom-and-dad reunion dancing in their heads.

As always in life - and in Cedar Cove - there are surprises, too. More than one family’s going to have a puppy under the tree. More than one scheme will go awry. And more than one romance will have a happy ending! What would the holidays be without a new Christmas story from Debbie Macomber?

Spend some more time in Cedar Cove.

©2011 Debbie Macomber (P)2011 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Excellent again

A very satisfying wrap to the cedar cove series. Would recommend to any one. Bye .

Extremely Annoying Narration

What did you like best about 1225 Christmas Tree Lane? What did you like least?

I enjoy Debbie Macomber's books but I almost stopped listening to this one due to the narrator. Besides feeling like I was being read to like a 1st grader, Sandra Burr has the most obnoxious voice characterizations I have ever heard. I have listened to hundreds of books on my ipod and I have never before encountered a narration so awful that I was tempted to turn it off. Unfortunately, she narrates several Macomber books. I will download those to my Kindle to read at night.

It's predictable . . . .

I have read some of her other books and really enjoyed them, but this was just a bit too
"syrupy" for my taste.

An easy Christmas listen

What did you like best about this story?

Heartwarming, easy listening

Any additional comments?

Dog lovers, Christmas lovers and romantics will enjoy this easy to listen to story

End of an Era

Would you try another book from Debbie Macomber and/or Sandra Burr?

Not for a while.

Would you recommend 1225 Christmas Tree Lane to your friends? Why or why not?

No, it was a little slow and if you are not familar with ALL of the people and plots in the other books, you will get lost.

Could you see 1225 Christmas Tree Lane being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

It would be great to have about 5 years worth of movies from all the books in the series. Like Mrs. Miracle. That would be great.

Any additional comments?

If you are a Christmas Tree Lane follower, this is a great wrap up!

Good as always

If you have never read a book in this series, it might be a little confusing, but even then it is a really good listen.

Warms You Through and Through

This is my third listen in this series, although the book is actually book twelve, (the last) in the series. I didn't have any trouble "keeping up" though. I love this book. It has all the elements of a wonderful Christmas story . . . forgiveness, family, reconciliation, babies, and even puppies. The first book in this series felt like "light fare". This one doesn't. Your heart will swell and you will root for these precious folks, ordinary people who have made some bad choices, who have hurt one another, and who are trying to work up the courage to make it right.

Not a stand alone story.

Unless you've read the entire series, you'll be as lost as I was.

If you've read the previous books then you get to see what happens to characters from those books.

The story about Beth and Kent was predictable.

Sandra Burr did a great job on narration.

Loved it

If you could sum up 1225 Christmas Tree Lane in three words, what would they be?

It closed a lot of doors in the Cedar Cove series. I will miss that series.

What did you like best about this story?

Closure

Book of endings

I didn't know that this book was a wrap up of previous books in the series. Not having read them all, I felt no connection to some of the characters, and others only vaguely remembered the story after the author 'reintroduced' them to the story. Voices were ok except for the daughters which I felt made them sound too juvenile.