My Christmas Angels [Kindle Edition]

Jason W. Chan (Author)

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Synopsis
My Christmas Angels is a tragic yet heartwarming Christmas story about Greg, a single father in his twenties, and Angie, his lively six-year old daughter, living in poverty in Vancouver. When they are evicted from their home, they move in with Greg's ex-girlfriend, Jessica, for whom he still has feelings. Just as their romance blossoms, Angie suffers a concussion and slips into a coma.

Riddled with grief and guilt, Greg stays at his daughter's side night and day. As the Christmas season approaches, he comes to terms with the possibility that his daughter may never wake up. He is advised to keep busy so he buries his grief in doing good deeds. Uplifted, Greg takes solace in the realization that great tragedy can give birth to great blessings.

My Christmas Angels is a touching and uplifting story of hope and love that captures the spirit of the holiday season.

Novelette length - approx. 17,000 words.

If you like this story, feel free to write a review.

Check out Jason's blog/website: jasonwchan.blogspot.com

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 172 KB
• Publisher: Jason W. Chan Entertainment Group (December 7, 2010)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B004FN21J6
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,289 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sad, lovely, August 13, 2011

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shira46 (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Christmas Angels (Kindle Edition)

An amazing story that will forever change my attitude towards panhandlers. The main character is a single, unemployed father who can't find work and is trying his best to take care of his daughter while avoiding charity or welfare. So he begs on the streets and only gets a dollar or two a day. That sounds grim, and it is a little, especially after reading the author notes that this is based on a real person. But the message of love and hope shines through so it's not deadly depressing. It is very moving and worth the read.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Christmas hope, August 15, 2011

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Sy Lee - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Christmas Angels (Kindle Edition)

This story has the feel of realism that is borne out by the author's statement that he actually interviewed a panhandler, took him to eat, and took notes.

I would recommend this book to anyone who is feeling tangled up in the Catch 22s of this world. As Greg, the main character whose world keeps going from bad to worse, tells us, everything happens for a reason. In his interaction with the depressed teen we get to see what one of the reasons is. He always has hope even in the face of what appears to be hopeless. Good reading. Enjoy!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous., December 26, 2011

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Stephanie L. Davison "cloudtoucher" (North Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Christmas Angels (Kindle Edition)

In the hands of someone else, this story, based on an encounter with a real street person, might have touched me. As it happened, I was so distracted by choppy sentences, unbelievable reactions and unrealistic events, I did not enjoy this at all. I only finished it to see what the author did to the characters.

Examples:

The main character, Greg, single parent of a little girl, "forgot how short a 6-year-old's attention span was." No, not if you truly are the sole caregiver. You LIVE with the short attention span.

After standing in line for admission to a shelter, in the cold of December, the father takes his shivering little girl to a recently re-met ex-girlfriend's apartment, at about 4:30 in the afternoon, where they drink hot chocolate to warm up. The ex-girlfriend is in her nightie already, but they all decide to go out to a park on this cold, darkening December afternoon. After playing on a swing, the little girl comes back to her dad, and he helps her on with her coat. What, he lets her play outside on a cold December afternoon without her coat on? That must have been some powerful hot chocolate.

*SPOILER ALERT*:

The father tries to insist on going into the operating room with his little girl who's about to have brain surgery. Please. When she comes back to her room, she's comatose, but not in ICU, not on a ventilator, and there are no nurses around.

The father decides he needs to help someone, so he wanders corridors of a hospital with no interference from anyone, makes his way into an adolescent psychiatric unit (which has apparently no security nor locked entrances) spends 5 minutes with a suicidal teenager (who is alone--seriously?) and miraculously, the teenager decides not to kill himself. (Psychological therapy is obviously inadequate to the situation.) Not only does the teen decide to live, but he goes to all the other adolescent patients and convince them life is worth living.

THEN the little girl's physician, who has been totally intimidated by the father, offers a job to the high school dropout father, training him to be a counseling therapist. Just like that.

Maybe the author should have just told the story of Greg as it happened, how it effected him, and published it as a short story. I'm sure that would have been much more interesting. And believable.

Thank goodness it was a freebie.