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This would be their last Christmas in their ancestral home, and Marian Wynswich is determined that it will be a happy one despite the death of her father the previous Christmas Eve and the pressure her elder sister, Ariadne, is undergoing to marry for money to save the family home. Shortly before Christmas her diplomat brother, Percy, comes home with two men: a highly objectionable marital candidate for Ariadne (who is deeply in love with their vicar), and a friend in the diplomatic corps whom he has invited on the spur of the moment. On the same day, Marian's younger brother sneaks home to her having been kicked out of Eton. The prospects for a joyous Christmas are not promising.

Carla Kelly is currently my favorite novelist. Having read her recent stories, I have been tracking down her out-of-print books, like Marian's Christmas Wish. This story contains the qualities I like best about Kelly's work. Her protagonists have physical attraction; but they also have qualities that will wear well over the years: they have a shared integrity, are compassionate, responsible, and have shared interests as well as a genuine concern for one another's welfare. The problem that has to be overcome in her stories often revolves around a difference in age, class, or situation with a dash of past trauma. Her characters are rich and well-drawn, and she always manages to maintain the dramatic tension to the very last. Marian's Christmas Wish is no exception. At the same time, the male protagonist does some things near the end of the story which are nearly unforgivable and which caused this not to be a favorite Carla Kelly work, though it is a very fine story.


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Marian Christmas Wish Carla Kelly 9781599559537 Books Reviews

This is a fun regency and a great one to read for Christmas. This is a witty little book although I did find the heroine slightly annoying sty moments. Overall ask though I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Content Very clean. Some kissing. One mention of "bedding" but not in reference to main characters.
Violence Some, but very minimal
Language Nothing offensive unless you are one offended by a male calling a female brat.
Overall story Could bother some as the heroine is still 16, not quite 17. But, this is that Regency period where this age was marrying material . So if that bothers you, this may not be the book for you.

5 stars from me even with some annoying parts. I just really enjoyed it!!
I loved the first half of this book and then it ran right off the rails for me. What a letdown!

Spoiler alert The hero is revealed to be in a profession where everything he says could be a lie. He is required to do "anything" in his true profession. He would never have sent the woman he loves home in his marked carriage when he knows the villain is on the loose. Is he really going to become a plain diplomat now or is that a lie also?
I am a big Carla Kelly fan and have enjoyed all the locations and characters I've met in her books. Marian's Christmas Wish starts out as a rambunctious family Christmas story, tinged with sadness because it is the last Christmas the family can have at their home because they have fallen upon hard financial times. The oldest son comes back from the talks in Vienna in 1814 with an somewhat older diplomat, an Earl, who is completely unstuffy and falls in love not only with the second oldest daughter in the house, Marian, but with the entire family.

Marian is a bit too young (16) to fall in love with such an older man (he's 28), but she likes him a lot, tends his scars with ointment that she has made, and goes Christmas caroling with him. The family's financial concerns seem about to be resolved with the oldest daughter's impending proposal to a fat, old baronet, who only cares about material things, and looks down on the high-spirited Marian. The baronet's comeuppance is very funny and very thoroughly done.

Not so funny begins to happen shortly thereafter when Marian's younger brother decides to abduct Gil to take him to Bath to see his family for Christmas. He hasn't seen them in 2-3 years, and both the brother and Marian think he should visit them. Marian is aghast, however, to discover what her brother has done -- dosing him with laudanum so that he will be unconscious during his abduction. This abduction is not wholly unexpected because Gil and the younger brother had been instrumental in tricking the baronet. The high spirits gone bad theme continues after a bit when suddenly Gil has to leave his family and go to London on a mysterious mission. Marian and her brother have remained in Bath after delivering Gil to his family, who are very happy to see him. However, Marian and her brother feel out of place with this upper-crust family and begin to long to be back home.

Here's where the story takes a sudden turn to the very serious -- betrayal, lying, knives, murderous chases -- the family idylls at both Bath and Devon are replaced by a nightmarish landscape of fear -- and Gil has brought it all to bear on Marian and her brother.

Gil is a delight - smart, funny, diplomatic, imaginative, kind -- he seems to be the magical visitor who will fix everything for Marian and her family. The question is, which Gil will prevail? Will Marian be able to overcome the enormous evil foisted upon her? Can equilibrium and family life be restored in a world torn apart by greed and deception?

The first time I read the book, I was quite confused by the change in tone. Then, a second and third reading have increased both my delight and appreciation of this book. As usual, Kelly never lets us forget the reality surrounding our heroes and heroines. Life is tough and may change you for the worse if you are not careful of your heart and your sense of self and your morals. And the best outcome happens when people of integrity choose to be with each other for the right reasons.

I highly recommend this book as a meaningful Regency Romance that has a bit of grit and grime in it to keep it real, and to make us care even more for the characters in the book. There's one scene where you will have your heart in your throat . . . .
This would be their last Christmas in their ancestral home, and Marian Wynswich is determined that it will be a happy one despite the death of her father the previous Christmas Eve and the pressure her elder sister, Ariadne, is undergoing to marry for money to save the family home. Shortly before Christmas her diplomat brother, Percy, comes home with two men a highly objectionable marital candidate for Ariadne (who is deeply in love with their vicar), and a friend in the diplomatic corps whom he has invited on the spur of the moment. On the same day, Marian's younger brother sneaks home to her having been kicked out of Eton. The prospects for a joyous Christmas are not promising.

Carla Kelly is currently my favorite novelist. Having read her recent stories, I have been tracking down her out-of-print books, like Marian's Christmas Wish. This story contains the qualities I like best about Kelly's work. Her protagonists have physical attraction; but they also have qualities that will wear well over the years they have a shared integrity, are compassionate, responsible, and have shared interests as well as a genuine concern for one another's welfare. The problem that has to be overcome in her stories often revolves around a difference in age, class, or situation with a dash of past trauma. Her characters are rich and well-drawn, and she always manages to maintain the dramatic tension to the very last. Marian's Christmas Wish is no exception. At the same time, the male protagonist does some things near the end of the story which are nearly unforgivable and which caused this not to be a favorite Carla Kelly work, though it is a very fine story.