The Saint (Wildside Romance) [Mass Market Paperback]

Melanie Jackson (Author)

Book Description

Series: Wildside Romance | Publication Date: March 2006

HAVE YOU BEEN NAUGHTY?One hundred and sixty years ago Kris Kringle walked the earth spreading the message of love and peace between peoples. Then he was kidnapped and given a drug that wiped out his memory, while the goblins hijacked Christmas.OR NICE?Kris has been found. But he’s not what you think. In fact, he’s not what anybody thinks, unless they happen to know he wears Armani, drives a vintage Rolls Royce and dislikes reindeer. Even more he dislikes the fat caricature the goblins stuck him with. He’s the most powerful death fey living, who gave up mortal women because none could complete him. He’s about to reclaim Christmas. That’s why he needs Adora Navarra, a biographer. Only she—along with the help of the fey already fighting the goblin menace—can help take back his image and punish the wicked. And only she can complete him. Santa Claus is about to go to town.

--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 374 pages
• Publisher: Love Spell (March 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0505526441
• ISBN-13: 978-0505526441
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #398,475 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Melanie Jackson is the award-winning author of more than fifty novels, novellas and poems published in various languages. She lives with her writer husband, her bossy cat and spoiled dog in the Sierra foothills where it is almost impossible to grow pumpkins (or anything else the deer like). Besides gardening, she is involved with animal charities.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story but very light on the romanance, March 5, 2006

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A. McMullen "amcmullen4" (Evans, GA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Saint (Wildside Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

What if Santa Claus was real, a death fey who refused to kill, whose purpose in life was to spread peace and love? He loves the children - all the children whether they be human, fey or goblins. The goblins didn't like it and poisoned him over a hundred years ago and left him to wander in the frozen north with the polar bears. Killing him doesn't work since he just comes back.

Adora's been hired to write his biography and feels that this is a sign that her career has hit an all time low. After all, the man thinks that he's Santa Claus! Unfortunately, he's very attractive as well and she doesn't want to get involved with anyone let alone someone who is obviously crazy.

The story is a good one, but it's more about myths, religions and a changing world than the romance. This book can be read alone; however, it will be more enjoyable if the others were read first. Most of the characters from the previous books make cameos in this one.

I am disappointed that Ms Jackson states that this is the last book in the series. She's created an interesting world and a world involved in a great deal of change. There's so much that she could do with it.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars whimsical Wildside romantic fantasy, March 3, 2006

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Harriet Klausner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Saint (Wildside Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Saint traveled the planet spreading good cheer, encouraging love between people, and destroying evil. More renowned as Santa Claus he abruptly vanished over a hundred-sixty years ago, but finally in 2006 he has been found wandering the northern wastelands living amidst polar bears and suffering from total amnesia. The Fey assume most likely the Goblins, who hijacked Christmas and painted the Ho Ho Ho fat boy image, managed to slip him a Mickey; the drug Fed wiped out his memory. Currently he recovers in the fey community of Cadalach.

Appalled to know how the Goblins stole Christmas, Kris, as his friends and family call him, hires author Adora Navarra to write his biography though the writer's more popular works collect dust on library shelves. She, in turn, is concerned about accepting a job from an obvious nut case, but needs the money that his Armani suit represents. What really frightens her is her attraction to the lunatic who hired her. Adora begins to wonder if insanity is catching as she meets fey, dragons and goblins when he takes her to his hometown. She will soon learn this is only the tip of the magic iceberg as she plays a key role in an upcoming scenario.

Fans will enjoy this fun whimsical Wildside romantic fantasy that adds depth to the chronicles that so many readers appreciate. The story line is action-packed as Kris plans to regain his original image of a hunk not afraid to fight for what he believes is right. Interestingly he finds himself fascinated by the mortal, having given up human females centuries ago. The key to this superb fantasy is Adora, whose reactions seem so perfect from initially questioning her safety with her lunatic client to pondering whether insanity is catching to falling in love while battling at her beloved's side against Goblins. Melanie Jackson provides a delightful charmer.

Harriet Klausner

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good Addition to the Series, March 24, 2006

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M. Colon "mf_colon" (New York City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Saint (Wildside Romance) (Mass Market Paperback)

The Saint is the newest (and supposedly last installment) in the Wildside series created by Ms. Jackson. I have followed all her books and The Saint is a entertaining, well-written addition to the series.

The book centers around the Death Fey named Kris Kingle aka Santa Claus. He has reappeared after centuries of being lost and is ready to change the world for the better. Adora Navarra (great name!) is the biographer he hires to write his life story. The strongest thing about this book is the characterization of the two leads. The author does a great job in describing what makes Kris and Adora tick. As a centuries old Fey, I was worried that the author would not do the character of Kris justice, but I was wrong. He is a strong-minded individual with centuries of experience and it comes across while reading the book. Adora is a human with no knowledge of her Fey ancestry who must make tough changes and realizations in this book. The internal struggles of her character were believable and I loved the interaction between her and "Joy."

This book was also very heavy with political, cultural and spiritual questionings about Christmas and the state of man/species relationships. It was not heavy in the romance area and Kris and Adora do not hook up until almost the end of the book. At the end, the main characters are still struggling with making the relationship work (which I thought was really believable given who they were and what they were going through.) So don't pick up this book expecting a heavy romance story!

My one problem was that according to the author, this is the last book in the series! While I respect the fact that she chose not to wrap things up all nicely, she left so much unfinished- what happens now that humans know about the Fey? What about the characters of Chloe and Zayn? I really think their is a lot Ms. Jackson could write about in the Wildside universe and hope she considers writing more books later on down the line.

All in all a great book and overall good series.