Rating: 
Summary: This is a definite five star collection!
Review: Thanks to these books, Richard Paul Evans is now one of my favorite authors. Once I start to read one of his books, I can't put it down until I am finished. His stories are tear-jerkers that pull at your heart, and the characters are well developed and believable. Everyone should read these stories!
Rating:
Summary: A very special book collection, for families!
Review: The "Christmas Box" collection of books is very special to my heart. I first heard about them when the TV-Movie "The Christmas Box" aired on the CBS Televison Network a few years ago. I fell in love with the series and have read all three books. They will keep you reading and reading them untill you are all the way done with them. The stories tell us all of friendship, forgiveness, kindness and a host of other wonderful things. It's a must HAVE for any book lover who enjoys a good book that deals with families lives.
Rating:
Summary: This book is an excellent, fast read.
Review: The Christmas Box is a book to be purchased for treasured friends and family memebers. It is a timeless story that need not be saved for the holiday season. The book offers the reader an opportunity to search within oneself for the 'first christmas gift'. Because I don't want to spoil the ending, I will not reveal any of the content; however, my advice would be to have a box of kleenix ready. To truly experience this book, read it alone first and let the emotion of the story creep into your soul and overtake your being. Finally, if you like this book, read "Message in a Bottle." It too will provide one an opportunity to search one's emotional being for the answer to the age old question, "Does true love really exsist?"
Rating:
Summary: XMAS Box is an emotional story which touches the heart
Review: The Christmas Box is an emotional story which touches the heart and probes the "true" meaning of Christmas. I highly recommend it to anyone. I read the book while my wife was pregnant at the request of our child's godmother. You don't have to have children to appreciate the book. A quick read, but well worth it!
Rating:
Summary: XMAS Box is an emotional story which touches the heart
Review: The Christmas Box is an emotional story which touches the heart and probes the "true" meaning of Christmas. I highly recommend it to anyone. I read the book while my wife was pregnant at the request of our child's godmother. You don't have to have children to appreciate the book. A quick read, but well worth it!
Rating: 
Summary: Like reading "It's a wonderful life"
Review: The Christmas Box trilogy captures the same sentimental and warm feeling as in the famous film with Jimmy Stewart. The story of Maryanne and David Parkin spans the Gold Rush, Depression up until the 80's. It's well written, the characters are heroic. If it is a bit sentimental and old-fashioned, well, that's what gives this book collection its charm. If you like a romantic tale of the sort that Hallmark Hall of Fame dramatizes on television mini-series, you will very much enjoy this book.
Rating:
Summary: A suspense-filled story!
Review: The Christmas Box was an excellent book, written by Richard Paul Evans! It definetely deserves 5 stars. I love the suspense that it leaves you with at the end of every chapter. The book is also filled with alot of mystery. It is about a husband, wife, and small child living in a small apartment, until they see a ad in the paper for a couple to do cooking and a small amount of houser work, in return for payment and a wing of the house to live in. This lady is a rich window who ownes a large mansion. Then, all of a sudden strange things start happening around the house, shortly after recieving the christmas box. They were mysterious things like, tear stains on the open pages of a bible, and loud music playing all over the house. I loved the story and the end was especially touching. I recomend this book to anyone who loves a touching a suspense-filled story.
Rating:
Summary: CHRISTMAS BOX COLLECTION
Review: This book was recommended by a friend. I resisted for a while than decided to read the books. I now own every book written by Richard Paul Evans. The most beautiful stories about Love I have ever read. For anyone who has lost a loved one, especially a child, don't miss this book. This is surely a Christmas Story that should be read every year at Christmas time to renew the true meaning of Love. Mr. Evans really knows what Love is all about. Keep writing for I want more good reading in my life.
Rating:
Summary: Healing from loss of loved one and refocus on the family
Review: This is a fine book for anyone to read and enjoy although it has a special interest for some. Written to comfort those who have lost a loved one, to bring people closer to family members, and to offer comfort to all who have suffered tragedies and abuse, this book is a reasonably well written collection of stories that will change your life. Evans's dynamic characters come to life as you experience their pains, triumphs, challenges and loves. As you finish each book of this trilogy, you can't wait to sink your teeth into the next one. Though it is not a literary superstar I gave this book 5 stars for the power with which the message hits home and the importance of the message of this book. I think it is especially timely in the new millenium. It is written as a story of hope in the face of great pain and loss. It offers comfort to so many who have experienced the death of a child, a miscarriage / still born child, or the death of any loved one. This book also applies well to one who has suffered abuse or tragedy in any form. In addition, it speaks of sacrificing family interests for our career and focusing our attentions where they bring the least happiness, a lesson learned as a busy entrepeneur and the author refers to as trading stones for diamonds. The greatest lesson, though is love and faith. Devestating as great challenges can be on individuals, they reek havoc on a relationship. This book delves into the rebuilding of individuals as well as the marriage in the years after the loss of a great tragedy. This book is enjoyable reading (though at times bordering on melodramatic) and I am buying my fourth and fifth copy today as gifts for more friends. Having read all of his books which seem to deliver a similar message with equally engaging characters, I especially recommend his latest book from Spring of 2002 which tells his personal story of writing and self publishing 'The Christmas Box'. But, again it is the characters in the stories that you quickly become attached to, so much that you will laugh with them, weep with them and not want to put the book down when you come to the satisfying end. Enjoy!
Rating:
Summary: Healing from loss of loved one and refocus on the family
Review: This is a fine book for anyone to read and enjoy although it has a special interest for some. Written to comfort those who have lost a loved one, to bring people closer to family members, and to offer comfort to all who have suffered tragedies and abuse, this book is a reasonably well written collection of stories that will change your life. Evans's dynamic characters come to life as you experience their pains, triumphs, challenges and loves. As you finish each book of this trilogy, you can't wait to sink your teeth into the next one. Though it is not a literary superstar I gave this book 5 stars for the power with which the message hits home and the importance of the message of this book. I think it is especially timely in the new millenium. It is written as a story of hope in the face of great pain and loss. It offers comfort to so many who have experienced the death of a child, a miscarriage / still born child, or the death of any loved one. This book also applies well to one who has suffered abuse or tragedy in any form. In addition, it speaks of sacrificing family interests for our career and focusing our attentions where they bring the least happiness, a lesson learned as a busy entrepeneur and the author refers to as trading stones for diamonds. The greatest lesson, though is love and faith. Devestating as great challenges can be on individuals, they reek havoc on a relationship. This book delves into the rebuilding of individuals as well as the marriage in the years after the loss of a great tragedy. This book is enjoyable reading (though at times bordering on melodramatic) and I am buying my fourth and fifth copy today as gifts for more friends. Having read all of his books which seem to deliver a similar message with equally engaging characters, I especially recommend his latest book from Spring of 2002 which tells his personal story of writing and self publishing 'The Christmas Box'. But, again it is the characters in the stories that you quickly become attached to, so much that you will laugh with them, weep with them and not want to put the book down when you come to the satisfying end. Enjoy!
| 
