Review: An enjoyable  gift for any time of year!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 05 11, 2013
Sometimes short fiction is exactly what I'm craving: there's just enough about the characters and their storylines to satisfy me and stimulate my imagination without the often overlong, repetitive, misunderstanding-laden journey we get in many full-length romance novels!These two stories were well worth the price tag...which, at the time of typing this review, is a delightful $0.00 :) Both were satisfying reads, with an actual plot/storyline (as opposed to just "here are two people. Listen to them banter about nothing before inevitably hooking up...") and the authors did a nice job of defining and distinguishing their characters in very few pages. I'm probably more likely to reread the first than the second. The first story contained characters who are a relative rarity these days: incredibly good, kind people. They were troubled but not tortured, bitter and broken, which made for a nice change. The second gave us some wonderfully witty banter. It does contain sex scenes that are more explicit than I generally like, but that's just a matter of personal taste.Overall, this was among the few free Kindle purchases that I genuinely enjoyed rather than hastily "archiving" to make room for something better. Having just read these in May, I can attest that they're enjoyable even when Christmas is still several months away!