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Star authors and friends Connie Brockway and Christina Dodd had a cute idea: why not write a book together? Once Upon a Pillow differs from most anthologies in that all the stories are directly linked – they’re the tales of the Masterson family, English nobility known throughout the generations for their legendary bed, which is…
While I rarely read anthologies, I jumped at the chance to review Tapestry because it features two authors I’ve greatly enjoyed in the past, Madeline Hunter and Sherrilyn Kenyon, and two I’ve heard good things about, Lynn Kurland and Karen Marie Moning. The four stories in this anthology all have something to do with a…
Every year Signet offers Regency readers a Christmas present in the form of an anthology of short stories by some of the line’s most popular authors. You’re not going to find the literary equivalent of coal or onions here, but none of the stories gives quite the thrill that, say, a gift out of the…
Delighted is this year’s erotic romance anthology from Brava, and like most anthologies it’s a mixed bag. The quality of the stories ranges from pretty readable to over-the-top and unintentionally hilarious. But while I was diverted, distracted, even at times disbelieving and disgusted, I wouldn’t really say that I was delighted with the end result.
Are you tired of reading all those extra words when all you really want to do is cut right to the love scenes? Or, when you finally do get to those long-anticipated love scenes, do they leave you wanting because they’re not very hot, or satisfying, or imaginative perhaps? Well, tickle my chin and call…
This anthology edited by Denise Little and Martin H. GreenbergIt also features stores by D. R. Meredith, Jody Lynn Nye, and Mary Watson
Tea for Two is a combination of two novellas, each about the length of a traditional regency. Both stories are set in the regency period, but aside from that, they have little in common in terms of style or enjoyability. One of them was pretty good, but the other was barely passable.
The Love Match was just about the most beige anthology I have ever read. There were no poorly written stories, but there were none that were exceptional either. All in all this book is a textbook example of a perfectly average anthology.
As if the title weren’t direct enough, one look at the cover of Fantasy (a pair of legs clad in embroidered black stockings with stiletto ankle-strap shoes) and it’s obvious what to expect from the stories inside. But what you might not expect is the sheer variety of fantasies these authors manage to cover, ranging…
The stories in A Mother’s Way are all over the map in terms of setting and quality. They range from medieval to modern, reality-based to fantastic, and very, very good to mind-numbingly bad. The one common factor is that each plot features a mother match-making for her daughter. If, like me, you tend to resent…
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