Fighting an out-of-season
wildfire in Miramar Bay, California is not the way any one wants to celebrate
the Christmas season but that is the backdrop for The Christmas Hummingbird.
Ryan Eames is a policewoman and
single mother to an artistically gifted son who doesn’t communicate with the
rest of the world, Liam. Exhausted by the double shifts required by the fire,
Ryan is responsible for getting people out of their homes before the fire
reaches them. One of whom is Ethan Lange who now has only the clothes on his
back.
Ethan is a bank Vice-President and
creates concept sets in miniature for a movie producer in his spare time. At
the time of the fire, Ethan had just been commissioned to come up with a set
idea for the movie adaption of book one of the Elvin Child series, a favorite of his childhood novel Before the story ends he is also a volunteer
fire fighter, working with the police.
With the police force already
stretched to its limits, Ethan is deputized and assigned to help Ryan protect
the belongings in the destroyed homes with wealthy, absentee owners from the
professional thieves operating in the area.
As the two get to know each other, Ethan is introduced to Liam. Much to Ryan’s surprise, Liam opens up to
Liam and even shares his drawings which even his mother isn’t allowed to see. Together they forge a plan to save the
hummingbirds whose habitat is being destroyed by the fire.
Although this is a love story,
the real star of the book is the hummingbird and the lessons we can learn from
them. They figure prominently throughout the story.
The story moves very quickly but
is a little too sweet for my taste. I also
felt the author went overboard with all of Ethan’s great ideas for the town and
his almost instant connection to Liam. However, if there ever is a time for a
story tied up in a perfect bright red bow, it is Christmas.
4.02 stars on Goodreads, 4.7 on
Amazon
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