If the set-up of this Christmas novella seems familiar, it’s because Anna Campbell originally wrote the opening pages of this story back in 2012 in response to a prompt by a blogger, which was – “A Wardrobe Malfunction on Christmas Eve”. She says she “immediately fell in love with the characters and their dilemma” and…
I spent a summer and semester in Vienna in college,so when I saw A Viennese Christmas available on Netgalley, I pounced on it. I have happy memories of Austria and would love to see more romance set there. This novella didn’t exactly put me in the Christmas spirit, but perhaps someday I’ll find another. Crain’s…
I’m normally somewhat wary of novellas, as many of those I’ve picked up in the past have turned out to be lacking in substance, or have been put out simply as a taster for an upcoming series and don’t stand alone very well. But Susanna Fraser’s name on the cover of A Christmas Reunion was…
This is the time of year that I start binge reading Christmas romances. Something about them just screams “Comfort read!” to me. I’m usually not one for children in romances, but I tend to be a bit more tolerant with my holiday stories. Perhaps that’s why I downloaded Her Holiday Man. Shannon Stacey’s short novella…
Grace Burrowes has gotten some great buzz here, which led me to request her book for review. I’m happy to say that I agree with previous reviewers – she’s a great author, and her characters and their relationships are interesting and well developed. A few things hold this book back, but this cross-class Christmas romance…
I’ve enjoyed Kate Hewitt’s work in the past, so picking up her latest novella, A Yorkshire Christmas was a no brainer for me. Unfortunately, this tale ended up being a mishmash of sweetly touching moments and a Christmas tale that just was more weird than romantic. Fearing disgrace at her teaching job, Claire Lindell has…
Sarah Morgan’s Maybe This Christmas is the third in her O’Neil Brothers series. The first two (Sleigh Bells in the Snow and Suddenly Last Summer) received a B+ and an A- here at AAR. Today Dabney and Haley discuss the novel. Haley: So, Dabney, I’m excited to discuss this book because Sarah Morgan has become an…
I’ve seen a number of enthusiastic reviews around from people who share similar tastes to mine for this book, so I thought it was likely that I would enjoy The Duke’s Holiday, too. It just shows that there is no accounting for taste sometimes, because I was very, very disappointed. It’s a fairly simple story…
Sometimes a book gets off to a running start… and sometimes it stumbles. Candlelight Christmas had a very bumbling start and failed to fully recover. The pacing was odd and not much happened. This felt like a novella’s worth of material stretched into book length with fluffy filler. If anything, I expected it to set…
This Christmas-themed book is a collection of three interrelated stories centered on Allison Brennan’s Kincaid family and their quest to get home for Christmas. While there are three separate stories to this novel, I would hesitate to call it an anthology and more of a novel in three parts. The time frames and characters overlap…
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