The Color of a Christmas Miracle

De: Julianne MacLean

Narrado por: Samara Naeymi

From best-selling author Julianne MacLean comes a special holiday novella in her popular Color of Heaven series, where people are affected by real life magic and miracles that change everything they once believed about life and love.

Claire Radcliffe has been blessed with a wonderful life - a loving husband, a fulfilling career, and a perfect house in a charming historic neighborhood. But with each Christmas that passes, the one thing she longs for most of all continues to elude her, and before long, her life doesn't seem so perfect anymore.

When yet another holiday season approaches and her marriage suffers the worst possible blow, Claire must learn to have faith in destiny, and allow herself to believe that miracles can happen to anyone - especially at Christmastime.

Heartwarming and inspiring, The Color of a Christmas Miracle is the tale of one woman's journey to find happiness, and to learn the power of forgiveness and redemption on the path to true love.

©2016 Julianne MacLean (P)2016 Julianne MacLean

A promise should not be broken

This book seemed more like a stand alone, instead of a part of the “Color of Heaven” series.
This book deals with cheating spouses. I was shocked the husband went from loving to a cheating jerk. The cheating woman was very manipulating and not someone I’d like to know.
I have a hard time seeing a good man become a cheater and a manipulative woman have a 180 degree turn. I liked Clare, her sister, and the neighbor friend, Scot. I also liked how good prevailed.
Over all I’m glad I listened to this 12th book in the series (although I don’t know how it fits into the series)

Great

This was a beautiful story!! I’ve enjoyed all Ms. MacLeans books, but this was my favorite so far

Not her best..

I really didn’t feel it was a Christmas story. Yes at the end it does have a Christmas wish but the voice of Bev and the basic story of cheating and Untrust didn’t sit well with me. Not my favorite book.

Julianne’s book NEVER disappoint

I can’t stop reading and listening to Julianne’s books. Such a talented author. Every book I start I can’t seem to stop.

Sweet story

Loved the story but the narrator drives me crazy with her voices. The character’s voice is great, but her sister Bev is one such voice that makes me want to cringe. I had to make fun of it while listening just to avoid giving up on the book. I enjoy the author so I’ll move on to the next book in hopes the little old witch voice isn’t there.

FORGIVENESS IS HARD

This book is definitely a stand alone from the rest of the series. The voice of Bev left a lot to be desired. She is in her 20's and sounds like someone cranky and whiny in their 60's. I always seem to have a hard time with the start of these books. It is always slow and lethargic. Once you get into it, it is good. Claire was really naive. She allowed what happened to her father dictate what she thought what real love was all about. Then she allowed her "beautiful" neighbor to come in her life and take over her and her husband's life. The first thing you need to realize is you never tell someone you just met (or long time not trusted friends) all of your business!! You also don't need to spread what goes on with you and your husband with other women (or men). That is called stupid in the first realm. I did not get it that Claire could not see what was going on with her husband when he started acting up and getting mad with her for anything she said or did. If he could not understand the hardship she was having with getting pregnant, then that should have been a clue that something else was going on with him. I wanted to jump in the book and shake her to wake up and smell the coffee, girl. When Wes comes back and begs for forgiveness it is a little trite. Those kind of people never last. At least Claire finally takes time to really evaluate the situation and not immediately jump back in and get hurt further. To me Scott was the saving grace of this whole situation. He understood his wife for what she really was. Someone not to be trusted.

I don't know what the laws are in Canada but in America, Claire was entitled to get all of Wes' things since she was still his wife at his death. But more importantly she was his beneficiary. No legal entity or insurance company would mess with that. Claire was more giving than I could ever be in this situation. I even had to sleep on this and try to look at it from all sides. Nope. I would not have given the funds up. Especially after all they had put her and Scott through.

Forgiveness is really for the person giving it. It helps to relieve you and help you to move pass the situation. Did it help the other woman?? Eventually. However, that should not effect the persons giving the forgiveness. Whether the person getting the forgiveness gets it or not, at least the person forgiving is done.

I will say, this book really made me stop and think about the forgiving issue and how God forgives us. All we do and say and He still forgives. Now that is the miracle and His Love.

P.S. I am a little mystified that a lot of the people in the series are having a hard time getting pregnant or losing their kids. What is up with that?? Having lost an adult child I know the heartache this brings. But faith and hope makes a difference.

DISAPPOINTED. I WANT MY CREDIT BACK.🫤

This is the 7th or 8th book in Julianne MacLean’s “Color” series. I haven’t been reading them in any particular order; but I’m very glad I didn’t read this one first, because if I had, I wouldn’t have bothered with any of the other books in the series, and that would have been a shame, because the other books have been terrific. I don’t know what happened with this one…

This book just completely missed the mark for me. The book’s main characters, Claire and Wes, got married and were looking forward to having a large family.

Like many couples, they discovered they had problems with infertility. Like many women who have problems with infertility (myself included), Claire becomes completely obsessed with having a baby. She talked incessantly about babies and infertility treatments, life became all about doctor appointments, calendars, etc.

Eventually, Wes mentally checks out and blindsides Claire when he runs off with the woman across the street, who incidentally happens to be Claire’s best friend, Angie, who knows EVERYTHING about Claire and Wes’ marriage.

Although completely betrayed by Wes and Angie, Claire grovels and weeps and takes all the blame for the demise of her marriage on herself. She becomes basically a doormat. She spends a year grieving her marriage and questioning what went wrong and what SHE did, not really putting blame where it really belonged — on Wes and Angie.

Meanwhile, Angie’s husband, Scott deals with everything by leaving to work in Germany for four months. Eventually Scott and Claire begin e-mailing and consoling each other over their shared losses.

I found Claire’s character to be completely pathetic, simpering, completely blind as to what was going on with her husband and with her marriage, and was then completely shocked when Wes and Angie ran off together.

The book was also very predictable. The two people who were wronged take solace in each other and you can guess what happens with them.

Of course, after some time, Wes recognizes the error of his ways and comes crawling back to Claire, apologizing and begging for another chance. Suddenly HE wants to put their marriage back together and to go through IVF treatments to try for a baby. When Wes comes back to Claire, HE actually grovels for forgiveness and wants to come “home” because Claire is such a “good person, SO much better than Angie.”

When Wes comes “home,” he has the audacity to use his key to just let himself into the house, and he’s JEALOUS because he found Claire learning to dance and having fun with Scott.

The whole “plot” line made me want to throw up from beginning to end. Had I been married to be “Wes,” his butt would have been on the curb so fast, he wouldn’t know what happened to him. At one point Wes told Claire she should probably “hire an attorney,” and I found myself thinking that had it been me, he’d need one HECK of an attorney, because after his behavior, he’d be sleeping on the street begging for change.

I still can’t understand how Ms. MacLean’s other books could be SO GOOD and then THIS book happens — it’s a stinker. It’s SO sappy. I will be asking for my credit back from Audible.

I’ve purchased all the books in Ms. MacLean’s “Color” series — I sure hope none of the rest in this series are the stinkers this one was.

Narration was just OK. Sorry to be so critical, but this book just didn’t do it for me in any way.

Typical premise. Unimpressed

Don't be blinded by the title, this is hardly a book about Christmas, but rather a book about a woman who falls in love, gets her heart broken by her cheating, no good husband who runs off with the neighbors wife, he ends up getting the wife pregnant and then he is killed on an accident and leaves a pregnant adulteress behind.

I thought I would love this one, but the main character comes off as extremely Whiney, needy, obsessed with having a baby and very difficult to relate to.

The ending is as you would expect. She falls in love and has her happily ever after with the neighbors husband.

Usually I like this series, but not this time.

The narrator did a great job at the main character but for all other characters even the sister, Bev, she sounded awful. Maybe like a 100 year old smoker.

Voice of Bev

Voice of Bev is awful! It’s like nails on a blackboard. Rest is just okay.

Hokey

I love gush, but this was over the top dripping with goodness. A little too much.