The Saint Melanie Jackson

The Saint

First Published 2006
368 Pages

ISBN: 0505526441
Reviewer:
Amanda Faye
March 2006

For over a century and a half, Santa Claus, aka Kris Kringle, has been lost, wandering in a haze of amnesia around among the polar bears at the North Pole. Now, he's been found, and is not thrilled with the lies circulating about him; for one thing, he's not a fat, old man, but an ancient, though young seeming, handsome, fey.

To set this misinformation straight, Kris hires Adora Navarra, a seldom read biographer who hears voices, or rather, one voice, named Joy. She thinks he's delusional, but needs the money, so takes the job. Soon, Adora is plunged into a mystical world unlike anything of which she could dream, and on the verge of finding out not just the truth about Santa Claus, but about herself. It may be more than she's prepared to find, yet Kris needs her to be strong enough to accept all of it, no matter how strange.

This is the most imaginative Santa Claus story you will likely ever find, and it's a unique entry in the Lutin series. Melanie Jackson has built a fantastic world; it is only appropriate that St. Nick has a place in it, as each book is a gift.






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Synopsis
A great and powerful fey, Kris Kringle, imprisoned in the North Pole for thousands of years, seeks freedom from his goblin captors and finds his soulmate in the form of biographer Adora Navarra, who has agreed to help him reveal his true image to the world and punish the wicked. Original.