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Westerns, romance and humor seem to go hand in hand. From 1938’s The Cowboy and the Lady to 2014’s A Million Ways to Die in the West, movies and books love to blend a look at the Wild West with a pretty lady, a clueless cowboy and a lot of laughs. With This Ring? is…
Had I realized that an anthology about “Hot Alphas” was not, in fact, going to be about a bunch of werewolf pack leaders, I probably wouldn’t have picked it up. It’s not that I object to reading about ordinary human men, just that I wouldn’t market most normal heroes as “Hot Alphas.” It sounds a…
Note: This is available in a digital edition for $4.74 at Amazon and other retailers. Anthologies often turn out unevenly, a result which might seem inevitable. Given that different authors have different voices which don’t all appeal to the same reader, it makes sense. However, Wish Upon a Snowflake ended up being one of those…
World War 2 is one of my very favorite time periods. I love the mix of heroism and determination in the face of great odds that combines with the sweet hopefulness of a wartime romance. This anthology has a nice blend of stories about a brother and his two sisters that take us from the…
I’ve loved the recent glut of World War One novels since I think this is a time period that has seen far too little representation in American literature. I am especially excited to see this period being represented in romance, as it is in this anthology from Harlequin, with stories all written by Marguerite Kaye.
There was nothing that I liked about Dark Heat, a collection of four short stories about dragon shifting men who live in the Scottish Highlands. Not the characters nor the world building nor the plot nor the romances. Nothing. Oh, wait. I did like that the stories were short. It’s normal procedure when reviewing a…
This anthology is a new look at the classic tales (or stories told in the style of the classic tales ) of the Brothers Grimm. There are seventeen tales altogether. Some are good, some are bad, some are just there. It’s unfortunate that the bad and mediocre tales pull the overall grade of the anthology…
I tend not to be a big anthology fan. Too often the stories are hit and miss, with more misses than hits. This anthology had three authors I had read and enjoyed before so I took a chance on it. I am so glad I did.
I feel sorry for the lovely Cindy Myers story, because it’s stuck at the end of an anthology with one mediocre story and two stories I had to force myself to finish. I suspect some people will never make it all the way to the one story worth reading. If you already have Secret Santa…
Christmas anthologies are one of my favorite holiday traditions—sweet, short stories that get me in the holiday mood without requiring huge chunks of my time to be spent on reading. Although Christmas on Main Street was certainly not the best Christmas anthology I’ve ever read, it was a nice, light holiday read that did the…
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