Want a feel-good romance for the holiday season? Read Christmas Dinner!First, the characters were so real. We get to know them well, including their connected pasts and their fated future. It was perfect! I loved loved loved these two MCs. I guess what really got me was that Amanda is truly like me – a go-getter, hopeless romantic. But all that was ruined by one Christmas Eve in her past. Now, she avoids her family and works hard as a news reporter. In comes Tate (and don’t you just love his [...]

Occasionally you just run across a book that is the perfect “feel good” moment and fits the season just as well. That was this story for me! Robyn Neeley delivers a story that is the perfect mix of characters and emotions, while delivering a lovely romance and returning the meaning of the season (hint – it isn’t wrapped and under the tree) to the reader and slightly recalcitrant characters. Amanda is a go-getter, determined and focused with her own hopelessly romantic moments: but a bad [...]

Christmas Dinnerby Robyn Neeley News anchor Amanda Turner used to love everything about the holidays—the eggnog sugar cookies, the tacky family Christmas sweaters, and a lawn decorated with so many multi-colored lights that 747s could land safely. That is until her boyfriend dumped her in front of the whole town on Christmas Eve. Humiliated, she fled her small town to start a new life. Two years later, she’s finally ready to return to the scene of the emotional crime, until she learns that [...]

Posted on What I'm ReadingHave you ever read a holiday book that made you laugh, cry and just felt like the perfect holiday read. Well, Robyn Neeley brings that with her latest release Christmas Dinner. In this book you will find elements that make a fun romantic comedy with moments that remind you that the magic of Christmas is still there. Christmas Dinner is one of those stories I loved so much, that I would love to tell you everything that happens in the book. It's that amazing, but I'll foc [...]

***I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.***Christmas Dinner is a heartwarming story of love, family, and forgiveness. Amanda is a news anchor in Wilmington, N.C. She can’t stand her co-anchor, the handsome, Tate. Everything he does seems to get on her nerves. Could it be that she actually likes Tate more than she is willing to admit? However, there is something she hates more…Christmas. It was not always that way, not until she was dumped by her boyfriend two years [...]

Amanda Turner is a new anchor and until a couple of years ago loved everything about Christmas. Her than boyfriend decided it was time to break up with her on Christmas Eve of all days. Therefore, Amanda spent the next two years away from home making a new life for herself. Amanda is still bitter about the break up and how it was handled. She is not pining away for the ex. Amanda is a sweet and loving woman who is at a cross roads in her life and does not seem to understand which path to take.Ta [...]

When I read the blurb for Christmas Dinner I was immediately drawn in. I loved the premise of the book. I couldn’t wait to read the whole story. Ms. Neely is a new-to-me author, and she drew me into the characters of the book so that they felt like family.Amanda hasn’t been home in two years, not since her boyfriend of five years dumps her on Christmas Even in front of her whole family. She thought he was proposing, instead he asks for a break. She lets her family know she will be home for C [...]

Christmas Dinner by Robyn Neeley is a HOT holiday romance infused with the Christmas spiritIf you're looking for a heart-warming holiday romance novel that has just a touch of A Christmas Carol, you should definitely checkout Robyn Neeley's new book, Christmas Dinner. I really loved it from the Scrooge-like defensiveness of television news anchor, Amanda, to the fun-loving sincerity of hero Tate. And their on-air chemistry has nothing on what's possible off-air!I was hooked from the beginning wh [...]

This was one book that made tears come to my eyes and I had to stop reading it for a little bit before I could read anymore. Amanda Turner is a woman that you think is stuck up and doesn't like anything until you find out what happened to her over two years ago on Christmas Eve. When you're expecting your boyfriend of years to propose to you and you have everything set up just right and everyone is watching, you never think he will be breaking up with you. So Amanda does what any woman would do. [...]

Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind. - Mary Ellen ChaseI received CHRISTMAS DINNER inside a beautiful red purse from Robyn Neeley in support of the Maryland Romance Writers (MRW) auction. I was bidding on the purse and CHRISTMAS DINNER was the icing on the cake.Amanda Turner has been bitter about the holidays for the past two years after her childhood friend-turned-boyfriend dumped her on Christmas Eve. She fled her update NY hometown, where her family grew Christmas trees [...]

The book is about two news anchors Amanda Turner and Tate Ryan, who have been working together for about a year. When the Christmas season comes around Amanda finds herself having to go home to deal with some personal demons from her past with Tate helping her by her side by pretending to be her boyfriend.I liked how the two main characters had a ying and yang working and personal relationship. Where Amanda is not a think on the feet type of person, Tate is there to help step in. Where Tate is n [...]

3.5 Stars in my Sky!Amanda Turner and Tate Ryan are TV news presenters who most definitely don't get on - or rather Amanda doesn't like Tate because of some pretty speedy assumptions. When Amanda's ex gets engaged just before she heads home for Christmas she somehow finds herself returning home with Tate in tow as her pretend boyfriend. The book is told in dual POV which is great because we get to see inside Tate's head and see how he's actually in love with Amanda and decides to use the situati [...]

*I received a free copy of this book in return for an honest review*Christmas Dinner by Robyn Neely is the romantic Christmas story of Amanda Turner and Tate Ryan. Amanda and Tate are co-anchors, but not friends. Tate irritates Amanda to no end, but Tate has been in love with Amanda since their first meeting. Amanda is returning to her hometown for the first time since her boyfriend dumped her on Christmas Eve. Tate agrees to go home with her to act as her boyfriend for the holiday weekend. Chri [...]

I simply loved this endearing novel! I was overcome by the spirit of Christmas as each wonderful character warmed my heart. This novella has much more feeling than what I had originally expected.The banter between Amanda and Tate is amusing, with an underlying tone of passion. It’s a little painful at times how oblivious she is to his true nature, but even more painful to watch him as he tries to find the right words. Her history with men, however, makes her inability to trust understandable. [...]

Robyn Neeley, author of Destination Wedding, comes through with another terrific Contemporary romance in Christmas Dinner. News anchor Amanda Turner returns home to Christmas loving family after a two year absence. Days before leaving, she learns the ex-boyfriend who dumped her on Christmas Eve will be there with his fiancé. Determined to show Mr. Won't Commit she's moved on, she needs a fake boyfriend fast and finds one in her co-anchor.Tate Ryan (don't you love that name) has ulterior motives [...]

Sarah's Review:Thanks to Robyn Neeley for giving me the chance to read and review this great story. This story was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review and part of our Christmas promo on the blog. I have to be honest and say that I completely love this story. From the very first page to the very last page, I was hooked. The twist and turns in this story kept me intrigued and I was anticipating what would happen when Tate told Amanda his secret. However, what happened was not a [...]

I was given a review copy in exchange for my honest opinion.This was a good read and definitely got me into the Christmas spirit. Amanda has a tough exterior and is afraid to let anyone in after what happened with her ex. She hates Christmas and has avoided it as much as possible over the past 2 years. Tate is actually a sweet, kind-hearted person who just so happens to know how to push Amanda’s buttons like no one else. They have spent the past year arguing and now he is going home with her a [...]

4.5 StarsIn Christmas Dinner by Robyn Neely, Amanda Turner is a successful news anchor, even if her co-anchor can get on her nerves most of the time. Amanda believes that this segment will be the best one in her career, since it will make breaking news and she has been the one working hard at uncovering it.Unfortunately right when she is live and about to break the news, the teleprompter malfunctions, to make matters worst she doesn’t have any notes with her and she is not good at winging it. [...]

Robyn Neeley delivers again! Nobody does cute, sweet, funny romance quite like it. Amanda and Tate co-anchor their local newsd they don't get along. That all changes when he poses as her boyfriend when she goes back home for Christmas. This story had me laughing and crying, and marveling at the intense emotion wrapped up in the seemingly light story. Ms. Neeley weaves the spirit of Christmas through all the little details of the story and really gets to the heart of what the holiday means to peo [...]

A great addition to my Christmas reading! "Christmas Dinner" is a sweet combination of contemporary romance with bits of holiday classics like "A Christmas Carol." It's impossible not to root for Amanda and Tate to find their happily-ever-after in time for Christmas.

Cute and heartwarming. Lots of references to trees and sweaters and cookies will easily get you into the Christmas mood. I really liked the plot and the initial connection between the two main characters. A very sweet romance and an entertaining story.

2.5

Robyn Neeley books are enjoyable little reads. Will they be the best books you ever read? No. But they fill the void of cute reads that are just down right adorable at times.