"The Hart of Christmas," by Latisha Sexton

Audience: Young Adult/Adult

Genre: Contemporary/Fiction/Christmas Story

Overall Content Rating: Clean

Content Warnings

Other

A guy takes his shirt off to show off his tattoo

Overall Review

There is one content warning for this book and it's the most minor content warning I've had to report in a long time. This book was so clean and made me so happy reading through it. From the start, we see Christ-centered themes, talk of praying to God and reading their Bibles, and overall just such a vision of Christ-like behavior. And while our two main characters get snowed in together, it's not at all sexual. As soon as anything gets close, they back up and remind themselves to be good. There's not an explicit mention of what denomination they are, but there's definitely a vein of Christianity greatly impacting this story and it's honestly so sweet.

This book was quite short and fairly Hallmark movie-esque, but 'tis the season so I read it with excitement because I knew they were going to be together in the end. The journey there, though, was less Hallmark movie-like because there was actually some form of resistance and inner turmoil between the characters. They were clearly trying but they didn't just roll over and let the feelings have their way.

Overall, I really appreciated the themes of this book being so pure, and even though it got flirty it was still respectful and not crude. I really enjoyed reading through it and how it uplifted me spiritually and really reminded me that you can be in certain situations and still follow God.

I'd definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a cute romcom but who also wants it to be Christ-centered. This one was amazing!