Never on a Sundae

Never on a Sundae is an odd book that’s more than a little difficult to categorize. The spine proclaims it to be a contemporary romance anthology, though I’d say it’s more Chick Lit than anything else. The stories are all loosely connected by a retro diner in Manhattan called Sundaes, where the characters are either patrons or (in one case) employees. I was ready to rally behind the idea of stories based on the love of ice cream, but it turned out to be a pretty fragile framework on which to base a book. The stories themselves range from pretty good to okay, but none are spectacular.