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Before Twilight, there was L. J. Smith’s The Vampire Diaries series. This was the original “teen vampire” series, published during the wave of YA horror novels. Harper has reissued the original four books in two omnibuses, and a new hardback in the series came out in 2009.
Under the Mistletoe is an anthology featuring re-issues of Christmas stories by Linda Howard and Stephanie Bond. Why these so-called “classics” were deserving of reprint, I don’t know.
With the demise of the traditional Regency romance, several authors have opted to write longer, meatier historicals. After publishing several trads, and, in the interim, short stories, Mary Blayney now makes the switch with a double feature, the first two novels in a series about a ducal family issued in one volume. If these two…
Wolfsbane and Mistletoe is an anthology of 15 short stories, some of them very short, all involving werewolves and Christmas in some way. Rather than write mini-reviews of the 15, I will mention the strongest – the ones that made me want to further explore these authors’ work – and then summarize the book as…
I picked up A Regency Christmas II because it contains one of my favorite Christmas stories of all time: Sunshine for Christmas. I reread it, delighted in it, and then read on. I realized this collection also includes excellent stories by Carla Kelly and Mary Balogh, and even the other two, by authors less well-known…
I may reach a point in my life when I read nothing but holiday anthologies for the entire month of December. There’s just something about a quick, festive read that’s very appealing at this time of year. To All a Good Night was, for the most part, just the sort of holiday read I was…
Double the Pleasure is an anthology anchored by Lori Foster’s latest story about the Winston men. Her story features twins who change places. While normally I shudder at that plot, Foster does a nice job with it.
In this new anthology, Berkley brings together stories in a variety of genres linked only by the mention of a Suite 606. While at first glance the book appears to be a hodgepodge of odds and ends, the stories are all fairly strong. While some of the contributors could have made more use of the…
As the days grow shorter, and Christmas lights are put up everywhere, I find myself browsing through holiday romances in the bookstores and online. Harlequin very reliably produces one Regency Christmas anthology each year, and as One Candlelit Christmas features a story by a favorite author of mine, Julia Justiss, the book was soon bought,…
For some reason, stores putting up Christmas decorations months too early annoys me. However, the Christmas romance anthologies can’t come fast enough. When I got Snowy Night With a Stranger, I happily sank myself into a very strong collection of stories. One of my auto-buy authors delivered a strong entry while I discovered another author…
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