A Historical Christmas Present

Occasionally, I can’t concentrate on a full-length romance novel, and that’s when I grab an anthology. In addition, they are a great place for testing unknown authors and have introduced me to several authors whose works I now collect. Autumn always brings an flood of anthologies with a Christmas theme, and the first that caught my attention this year was A Historical Christmas Present. It was only after I had read the book that I realized all these stories had been printed before, albeit in different volumes: I Will in Wish List (2001, and reviewed here at AAR by Colleen), Three French Hens in Five Gold Rings (1999), and Father Christmas in The First Noel (1995). As I had not read any of these previously, it did not cause me problems but consider yourselves warned. Quite by accident, I started the collection with the middle story, which proved disappointing, and then worked my way on to the last, which was very nice, to the first, which was fabulous.