Review: For when you just want to 'get away.'
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
This anthology was super fun. Each story was expertly crafted to help the reader delve into characters and love them quickly. Love Bytes by Melanie Jacobson used emails and texts in a clever way to start the romance off in this collection. Romeo and Julie-Ex by Julie Wright crushes Juliette right off the bang as her fiance breaks off her engagement just as the UPS man shows up with her wedding dress. The Meltdown Match by Rachael Anderson pairs up Courtney, a wandering writer, and Mitch, the city engineer, in a contest in Heimel, Alaska, where contestants' names are frozen inside ice and whichever girl and boy names melt first are destined to be together by `the sun.' In Golden Sunrise by Annette Lyon, Natalie goes to Vegas for her best friend's wedding, only to run into her ex-boyfriend from high school that is there to be the best man. Finding she still has strong feelings for him makes her want to avoid him, but that's hard to do when he has to walk her down the aisle for the wedding of their two best friends. Tide Pools by Heather Moore has two very different characters--Lexi, a serious science major, and David, a hunk with a gorgeous girlfriend hanging all over him--meet up at a Hawaiian wedding. In A Regular Bloke from Stanmore, Sarah M. Eden weaves a charming tale about Abby, who helps her sister plan a crazy `English Regency' wedding. When they find the Sainsbury House with Brit, Matthew Carlton, as the host, Caroline goes nuts, and is sure she's found the perfect place to have her wedding. Abby agrees, but wants nothing to do with the stuffy British Mr. Carlton.This was my first time reading one of these anthologies, and I really enjoyed it. I didn't expect the stories to hook me so well since they were short, but they did and I felt it was a fun feast to partake of on a beach, in the back yard...or wherever you want to get away for a little while.