Title: Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
Author: Brandon Witt
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Length: 48 Pages
Category: Contemporary Holiday Romance
At a Glance: While Samuel and Raymond may be advanced in years, their romance is young at heart. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is one holiday story I highly recommend.
Reviewed By: Sammy
Blurb: Fifty-six-year-old Samuel Phillips is all alone on his small farm in the Ozarks, with nothing but a menagerie of chickens, pheasants, turkeys, and other birds as company—which is just the way he likes it. In fact, if Samuel had his way, he’d tear down his neighbor’s house so his solitude could be absolute. One day Faloola, his favorite turkey, escapes, forcing Samuel to make the trek next door. When Raymond Webber—sixty-seven—answers the door as naked as the day he was born, Samuel doesn’t know whether he’s more annoyed… or attracted. The two men are opposites in every way—Samuel is serious, while Raymond believes in free love and herbal relaxation. The weeks leading up to Christmas are rocky to say the least, but some holiday spirit might help them get past their differences…
A story from the Dreamspinner Press 2017 Advent Calendar “Stocking Stuffers.”
Review: Brandon Witt’s Christmas story, Hope Is the Thing with Feathers, is, to date, the funniest entry of the season for me. I loved this story from start to finish. I know some may reel back a bit as to the way in which these two older men, Samuel and Raymond, get together, but I just could not stop laughing. Maybe it’s the farm girl in me, or the fact that my dad raised turkeys, but, oh my, this one is just priceless.
Samuel loves his turkeys, his cows, and his solitude. He hates the fact that Old Man Webber up and died, and left the adjacent farm to his son, Raymond. If Samuel had his way, he would have bought out the old man before he died, and now be completely alone to live out his golden years with just his animals for company. So what if he was a bit lonely. So what if he occasionally missed male companionship—well, ok, sex. He managed just fine, thank you very much. So when his favorite turkey decides to take a walk, and the hunt for her leads him to Raymond’s front door, so what if the guy answers it buck naked and looking good—wait, what?
Thus begins the comedy of errors that ends with two men no longer lonely, some magic brownies, and a few more creatures added to Samuel’s menagerie. In between, there will be a few misunderstandings, a lot of sexual tension and frustration, and some of the funniest moments ever to grace a holiday story. Author Brandon Witt does Christmas like no other, and while these two gentlemen may be advanced in years, their romance is young at heart. Hope Is the Thing with Feathers is one holiday story I highly recommend.
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