Review: Not a Romance, Not a Happy Holiday Story
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 14, 2011
I downloaded this free e-novella for my Kindle because both the picture and the blurb implied that it was a short, sweet Christmas romance. As much as I wanted to like it, and as much as I kept reading and telling myself the story would get better, I'm sad to say I was pretty disappointed. I hate saying this because I want to support independent authors and I want to give new writers a chance, and I definitely don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth by disparaging free books, but I feel like the description, title, and picture for this book were all rather misleading.The story just dragged for me. The main character is being introduced to a series of men (named after archangels, which made me keep thinking there might be a heavenly connection, but nothing ever comes of this) who she's not interested in dating. Does Mr. Right come along and sweep her off her feet? Nope. Nobody comes along, so I don't know why the picture for this story tries to be cutesy and romance-y.I don't want to give the ending away in case you are interested in reading this story, but I do want to warn you that the ending is not a happily-ever-after and there is no joy of Christmas to be had. Instead, it was rather depressing. If the intent was to introduce a full length novel to come, I have to say that this story did not make me want to read it at all.