Review: For romance readers short on time but long on Christmas cheer
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
A Christmas to Remember is a collection of short stories by some of today’s best-selling romance authors. The authors are Jill Shalvis, Kristen Ashley, Hope Ramsay, Molly Cannon, and Marilyn Pappano. Each author contributes a short, romantic Christmas story as well as an excerpt from one of their novels.My favorite stories were “Dream a Little Dream” by Jill Shalvis and “Every Year” by Kristen Ashley. If you haven’t read Ashley’s Chaos series and Motorcycle Man, you may find “Every Year” difficult to follow. I found the other short stories a bit too short – characters falling in love and moving on to engagement within a span of a few weeks is not very believable, but are romances supposed to be believable? I realize it’s difficult to write a short romance story and not fall into the cliché trap.I give this collection four stars because it accomplishes what it sets out to do: introduce readers to some great authors and provide some romantic holiday cheer.I recommend this book to romance readers short on time but long on Christmas cheer.*I received an ARC copy of this book in return for an honest review.*