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A Pony for Christmas: A Montana Holiday novella by Alberta-raised Nova Scotia-resident author Bev Pettersen, a heartwarming contemporary Exactly What It Says In The Title out from Westerhall, which may be a self-pub house name, but her books have previously been mentioned in prior Romance megathreads, and her blurb says that she's been a finalist for that RWA Golden Heart Award thing that they give to promising newbies.
NB: this may not actually be a romance itself, but just a heartwarming holiday tale that kind of ties into the author's dedicated horse-ranching romances. OTOH, it has this heart-shaped Xmas ornament dangling from the author's name on the cover, so I guess that kind of bodes well for the possibility of finding  inside? |
Definitely a romance. The story is told entirely from the point of view of a 6 year-old girl, so the romantic details are hinted at here and there rather than spelled out the way we're used to in romance novels. Children are perceptive, so when speaking to a specific individual always makes her mother sparkle and smile for hours afterward, the girl notices...
So yes, definitely a romance of sorts. It's just telling the story in a very unusual way. If this had been written from an adult perspective it could very easily have turned into a long novel, but it's almost more touching this way.
This short review brought to you by a cynical smart-aleck who doesn't typically like children...
