Review: My favorite trope... done well!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 5, 2011
My Review:Rating: A+Oh wow! Friends to lovers is my favorite trope and although there wasn't anything new with the story line in this book, it was written amazingly well. Shannon captured the tortured emotions of both of these characters so well as they deal with the guilt of falling in love with each other when Brendan is dead. I really truly loved both of these characters, Claire and Justin. I love that, for him, he has loved her the entire time that he's known her which adds a different kind of guilt to his emotions.This is short even for a novella, only 20,000 words, but it didn't lack in anything. I loved the addition of Brendan's mom to the mix and how she sets both Claire and Justin straight. I love the fact that they have been absolute best friends for the 2 years since Brendan's death, so they have all these little traditions that they have as friends. I loved the addition of all that snow....the plowing, the snowmobiling, the outdoors during Christmas...such a magical ambiance.This was an amazing novella. In fact, all of them in this anthology were fantastic. I plan to re-read them over and over for holiday seasons to come!