Review: Nothing Special
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 13, 2014
I'm a big fan of Jill Shalvis and Kristen Ashley but both their stories in this book were a bit of a let down.KA states she didn't know if she could write a 'short'. I can see why she thought that as this short suffers for it. If I didn't know it was by KA I would never have guessed. I didn't sense her writing style at all. It's told from Tabby's POV. We don't actually get much of Shy, he only says a few words. As in Own the Wind, I get annoyed that Tabby, a grown woman, refers to Tyra (Tack's wife) as Ty-Ty! The best bit about this story was again, how great KA is at writing kids. Her description of Tyra & Tack's kids excitement on Christmas morning was spot on! I will say KA's story is the best of the four but still lacked something for me.Jill Shalvis' story was lacking something and not on a par with her usual stories.The other 3 stories by Hope Ramsay, Molly Cannon and Marilyn Pappano were just OK, nothing special.There is an extract of each of the authors other books at the end of their stories (for KA, it's an extract from Own the Wind).Overall, I would not recommend this anthology and if you are new to KA, please don't let this short put you off and do read Own the Wind and her many other great books.ARC provided by Netgalley.