Baby It's Cold Outside (When I Fall in Love) [Paperback]

Susan May Warren (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2011 | Series: When I Fall in Love

Dottie Morgan has no desire to share her home or her heart over the Christmas holidays. After all, her Christmas spirit froze over when Dottie lost her son in World War II. But when a blizzard of the decade traps Dottie in her home with four near strangers, she just might discover that opening her door might also open her heart to a Christmas miracle and a new reason to celebrate Christmas.

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

SUSAN MAY WARREN is an award-winning,
best-selling novelist of over twenty-four novels,
many of which have won the Inspirational Readers
Choice Award, the ACFW Book of the Year award,
the Rita Award, and have been Christy finalists.
After serving as a missionary for eight years in
Russia, she returned home to a small town on
Minnesota's beautiful Lake Superior shore where
she, her four children, and her husband are active
in their local church. Read more at
susanmaywarren.com.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Summerside Press (October 1, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1609362152
• ISBN-13: 978-1609362157
• Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 1 x 8.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,004,656 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Growing up in Minneapolis and attending the U of MN, I learned to love city life, although I'm a woodsy girl at heart. Or maybe I'm an adventurer -- having lived and traveled all over the world, including Siberia Russia as a missionary for eight years. Probably that's why my characters can't sit still, and seem to get into one scrape after another -- they're too much like me! I love God, my family, my country, my church, and feel privileged every day to be able to write stories, that I hope inspire and entertain!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Come in from the cold October 22, 2011

By Sys

Format:Paperback

Many thanks to Summerside Press for providing me with a review copy of Baby, It's Cold Outside.

First, I must confess that I consider myself a huge Susan May Warren fan so I practically jumped for joy to be included in this tour. The way Susan infuses hope, faith and a tiny pinch of Russia into her stories always leaves me feeling encouraged.

Yet, I had a hard time getting started with Baby, It's Cold Outside, not because I found the writing lacking, but because I found the hopelessness so overwhelming. It felt very personal. I could relate to each and every emotion. I found myself setting the book aside several times before I could really dig into the story.

When I eventually invested myself in the story I thoroughly enjoyed seeing the characters move toward hope and community. Perhaps my favorite aspect of the novel was witnessing each character calling the others to "look up" by making statements of faith they once believed, surprising even themselves in the process of encouraging someone else. Each character needed the community to reflect back to them the area of faith that they couldn't grasp a hold of on their own and that is the a truth that speaks powerfully today in our community hungry world.

As I delved deeper into the novel, I found it overflowing with all of my favorite themes: hope found in Jesus Christ, the need for real community in faith (knowing each other deeply and being our true self with others), how God's never stops seeking us - revealing himself, how God meets us in our suffering, in our weakness, in our helplessness and how in Christ all things can be redeemed and made new.

If you want to read a Christmas story of how Immanuel, God with Us, brings hope to the broken, weary and discouraged then Baby, It's Cold Outside is just the book for you.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Post-WWII blizzard captures a handful just prior to Christmas October 5, 2011

By Harold Wolf TOP 50 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

A kid, one stranger & 2 interlopers invade her private home in a pre-Christmas blizzard with the Victorian house decked out in nothing but grief and anger.
There is enough guilt flying around inside this house surrounded by flying snowflakes to make Ebenezer Scrooge look like a Salvation Army Santa. Who will win this 1949 Christmas Grinch of the Green Victorian House award? The old house, appearing to be from a fairy story, was to be the child's safe house. But the owner seems to be the village witch. Will it serve as a shelter in a time of storm? 5 people caught in a storm together, each with their own impossible burdens.

You get a post-WW2 story where the issues of loss and want are very fresh in this small town. It is a nostalgic look back at the days when the Baby Boomer generation was conceived in its infancy. A time when many had a Christmas that held a lesser joy due to family members who did not return home. A time when Christmas was more about love & Jesus than gifts & Santa. There's plenty of calamity and adventure leading up to Christmas Day. Ladies will relish the romantic finale.

I'm glad I pre-ordered this worthy book now added to this award-winning Christian Historical romance writer's acclaim. Read it slowly--under a blanket--`cause "Baby, It's Cold Outside." Couldn't put it down, always a good sign.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Christmas Romance May 27, 2012

By Coffee Ramblings TOP 1000 REVIEWER

Format:Paperback

Dottie Morgan does not celebrate Christmas anymore. Her only son had died during WWII and she has no family left. Dottie's friend/co-worker Violet, who is grieving over her fiancé's death, shows up at door as a snowstorm hits Frost, Minnesota. A mystery man ends up at Dottie's house, along with her neighbor. She would rather spend the holidays by herself, but must make the best out an awkward situation.

I found it odd that I was reading a Christmas novel in October, but I found the novel charming and witty at times. I liked that the story is set in a small town, which I can relate to. The characters in Baby, It's Cold Outside are grieving over lost loved ones and are struggling with the holiday season. I found the book funny and heartwarming. I can easily see this as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie in the near future. It is a great read.