"Unexpected Christmas Hero" by Kathi Macias

Unexpected Christmas Hero by Kathi Macias
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Josie Meyers thinks she is living the American dream when she marries a nice, handsome man with a promising future. The dream quickly becomes a nightmare when Josie becomes a widow and must deal with the fallout of her husband's decisions. She soon finds that she and her two small children are forced to live on the streets and in homeless shelters. While the scenes surrounding Josie are dominated by Christmas decorations and carols, Josie finds herself struggling with the demands of caring for her two small children. She is forced to lean on the kindness and generosity of others. What she doesn't know is that the influence of one homeless man in particular is about to change the course of her life and lead her home to the One who waits for her. He becomes her unexpected Christmas hero.

 Ms. Macias deals with the touchy subject of homelessness. Josie Meyers is a loving mother that is now on the streets due to circumstances out of her control. You feel her pain as she tries to keep her children safe, fed and warm while she deals with her anger at God that they are in this situation. God works gently on her heart as He places people again and again in her life that care for her and show her His love, drawing her heart back to Him. All culminating in a life-changing, Unexpected Christmas Gift. A very sweet story, but at times the writing seemed a little odd--a little forced. It seems that as soon as one good thing happens, it just snowballs and things pretty much work out from there on, and that just felt a little unrealistic and contrived. I ended up dropping the review from 4 stars to 3 due to this.

I won this book from FaithDeployed.com and agreed to give my honest opinion of it.