Review: Only the Jill Shalvis Worked For Me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2011
I'm not generally one for anthology stories.  They're too short for me (I need substance!!), but I got this one because I had to know what happened with Logan after Tara and Ford got back together in Jill Shalvis' Kissing Santa Claus.For the Jill Shalvis story, this was Jill Shalvis crammed into a tiny box.  I love Jill Shalvis, but I need Jill to have lots of space and pages to let the story flow.Logan and Sandy had some "stuff" to work out before they could get their HEA, but I guess with a Christmas short we can bypass all that messy stuff and skip right to the I love you's and want to marry you's in front of the entire town having Christmas breakfast.That said, it was Jill Shalvis so I enjoyed it.The other two stories we further proof that I don't like anthologies.  I'll Be Home For Christmas was so rushed that I didn't feel like I could connect or care about any of the characters.  And in O Little Town of Bramble I felt like I just walked into the middle of a tornado.  There was so much thrown at you so fast without any time to really get a fell for why things were happening that I threw my hands up and said "whatever".If you're looking for some quick holiday stories, this may be for you.  Me, I truly need to stay away from the anthologies because they just don't work for me.