Regency Christmas Courtship

There is a staff review of this book as well

Regency Christmas Courtship is Signet’s annual Regency romance/holiday anthology. This year it features stories by five authors, four of whom – Nancy Butler, Edith Layton, Barbara Metzger, and Andrea Pickens (aka Andrea DaRif) – have gone on from trad Regencies to European Historicals. Gayle Buck provides the fifth entry in the anthology.

Linda:  Making a choice was a no-brainer this month, as I love the annual Signet Regency anthologies and even if it came out in October, Regency Christmas Courtship seemed like an appropriate choice. Fortunately it is still readily available and I enjoyed most of the stories in this one – with only one kind of ringing hollow to me.

Blythe:  I buy the Signet anthology every year, and though I don’t always get to it, I’m always glad when I do. It’s kind of like a comfort read to me. There’s something about the words “Regency” and “Christmas” that just go so well together, and the short story/novella format is perfect. That said, I thought this was one of the weaker anthologies I’ve seen; usually I like them more than I liked this one. Let’s discuss each story in turn first.