Review: Not My Thing, but not bad
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 1, 2014
After reading a bunch of holiday anthologies this one really fell flat for me. These stories were really short and didn’t allow for much character development. Everything was so incredibly quick; a couple of days and people were declaring their love for each other and how their world wouldn’t be the same without the other person.Dream a Little Dream by Jill Shavis and Every Year by Kristen Ashley were my favorites because the stories were about people who already knew each other so the relationships were believable. Silent Night by Hope Ramsay was my least favorite. Although, I sympathized with both characters, I just couldn’t but into the story. Have Yourself a Messy Little Christmas by Molly Cannon was cute. It could have benefitted from being a smidge longer so that there could have been a bit more development, but it was pretty darn close to a Hallmark movie. A Family for Christmas by Marilyn Pappano was also cute and slightly heartbreaking, but it moved far too fast and the sending really made it difficult for me to suspend belief.Arc provided by the publisher via Netgalley