Review: Upside Down Christmas Cake
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 11 19, 2012
This is a very fine collection of fairly offbeat short stories with some typical formatting and spelling errors found in most independent writers' works. If your a romantic fiction, fantasy fiction, mystery fiction, transgender fiction fan, this is a good collection for you. The whole thing is mostly PG in keeping with content of romantic and adventure fiction. The characters are very real, don't get me  wrong. There just isn't any explicit sex on the pages of this collection. You're bound to find at least half of the stories enjoyable depending on your preferences. That's probably a very good reason to buy this collection. I like sentimental Christmas stories. Some of these stories get close to sentimental, so I liked them a lot. If you like these kind of "Christmas fudge" sentimental stories then get this collection. There's something quite captivating about the mysterious town of St. Claws, the woman that snowmen talk to in Snow Whisperer,the action-packed fantasy Let's Ride, the off-beat funny-bone joy of A Very Shero Christmas, the Darkest Night in which a Witch recovers her powers in a familiar village, and the realistic romance and humanistic visions in Saving Grace, O Christmas Cactus, Fred's Best Christmas and Fresh Snow. All the stories combine to make an enjoyable and relaxing read for the holidays. However, independent writers' works suffer from the lack of professional editors, so the grammatical, spelling errors and format issues, minor at best, still irritate enough  to rate this as a very good, three star collection of short stories with a holiday theme.Papa DeanAuthor of Revenge of the Video Game