Review: Five enjoyable short stories
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 22, 2013
Usually anthologies are a mixed bag, but in this one, I enjoyed all of the stories. Several of them featured insta-love (the Hope Ramsey, Molly Cannon and Marilyn Pappano stories), so they weren't too believable, but they were all sweet stories, filled with likable lead characters who you were rooting for by the end. I wish they had been longer so that the time period didn't have to be quite so compressed. I thought the Jill Shalvis story was the best in the book (no surprise there since I'm familiar with Lucky Harbor and love the series), but even though I personally enjoyed Kristen Ashley's story and I'm a big fan of hers, I thought her contribution was the least successful one in the anthology. To me, that story is really more of a gift to fans that have already read the books featuring Chaos, It doesn't work well as a stand-alone, whereas all of the others did. I enjoyed it very much since I was already familiar with the characters but I think it would be much harder to enjoy if you weren't. I also liked the excerpts from each author's work and I plan on keeping an eye out for at least one or two of the authors that I wasn't familiar with, so all in all, this anthology was a successful one for me.