Review Winter Collection (A Timeless Romance Anthology, #1) Engineered By Sarah M. Eden Format Printed Matter
really enjoyed reading all of these short stories, My favorite had to be Sarah Eden's tho she has a way of creating great tension between her characters.
I liked each short story a lot but found Joyce's story a little muddled in the beginning, It was worth thekindle price and this is one I am glad I bought so I can go back and read again.
Really, really LOVED the stories by Sarah Eden and Donna Hatch!
Really enjoyed this collection of short stories!!!
Going to break it down by each one:
The Road to Cavan Town Sarah EdenStars Clean
An Unexpected Proposal Anette LyonStars Moral Note: A man leers at a woman and grabs her breast
It Happened Twelfth Night Heidi AshworthStars this one felt really rushed to me
Caroles on the Green Joyce DiPastenaStars Really liked it
A Winter's Knight Donna HatchStars First Donna Hatch read, loving her!!!
A Fortunate Exile Heather B.
MooreStars Has "dang" and talk of rakes/mistresses
Lovely
Individually, I would probably only rate each novellabut it was such a pleasure none disappointed.
All authors were new to me, The stories varied in time and place, but all were clean, I would definitely recommend if you enjoy Christmas romance novellas,historical romance novellas byawardwinning authors, I had a hard time deciding which story was my favorite, so I guess I'll just have to love them all.
It was great to read something short from each author, . . I'd read books by all of the authors except for Donna Hatch, So when I read her story and loved it, I went and bought one of her other ebooks to read.
I'm not normally a short story reader, but these romances were clean, quick reads, and I didn't feel like I was missing out on longer plots.
Great collection of historical romances set in different time periods and countries, Clean.
sitelink blogspot. c Some of my favorite authors teaming up for a romance anthology I'm so there,
And they still blew my expectations out of the water, I loved each story and can't wait
for the spring collection! Each of these stories delivered romance as it should bethough in the author's particular style.
I loved Joyce DiPastena's Isabel and Lucian and would read an entire novel about them, And getting to see Heather Moore show off her talent at romance was truly a treat, I can't recommend this anthology enough,
Yes, I'm one of the authors in this anthology, but I hadn't read the other stories until now.
Here are some of my thoughts:
"The Road to Cavan Town," by Sarah M, Eden: A very sweet, heartwarming romance, Lovely start to the anthology,
"It Happened Twelfth Night", by Heidi Ashworth: Some of the best eye lash lines since Georgette Heyer's "The Nonesuch.
" Beautifully descriptive and the romance was sweet and fun,
"An Unexpected Proposal," by Annette Lyon: Romance inLogan, Utah, A young girl learns the hard way what's truly important in Annette Lyon's sweet winter romance,
"A Winter's Knight," by Donna Hatch: The heroine has always dreamed of stepping into the world of the gothic novel, and on Christmas Eve she gets her wish.
Told with Regency author Donna Hatch's usual wit and charm,
"A Fortunate Exile," by Heather B, Moore: I haven't read a romance set at the turnofthe century before, Hmm, I guess inI need to specify which century, The setting is. Thoroughly enjoyed visiting this year and Heather's sweet romance, Though you may want a cup of hot chocolate to sip while you read this one, Heather definitely captures the anthology's winter theme, :
My contribution to the collection is "Caroles on the Green," set inEngland, All I will say is that I hope readers enjoy it, I thoroughly enjoyed writing it! It's probably not fair of me to rate this since I only really read the first book, by Sarah M.
Eden. I love Eden's works so I decided to pick this up and see if maybe I'd find a few new authors I'd enjoy reading books by.
The first story is sweet, clean and enjoyable, The hero may have been irritatingly blind, but I still liked him for his consideration and humility in admitting fault.
The heroine and he both had a good relationship and I liked that they could tell each other anything.
Except of course, they couldn't tell each other when they were being idiots, Not Eden's wittiest, but that's fine since she took this book in a different track to the others in this collection.
Set in Ireland after the potato famine and the main characters are both common people, And better, their romance was over several months of close contact,
I skimmed or skipped the rest for various reasons, In my skimmings I couldn't help but notice that the hero was always tall, handsome and, . . Wait for it, desperately in love at the first sighting of the heroine, I'm not saying people don't fall in love at first sight, some do, But this was ridiculous! And another thing, if the hero/heroine had been crossed in love, they always fell in love with the opposite of their first.
sigh I should never read new books when I'm sick, I just pick them apart too much, Apologies to all who think this book good and who enjoy this genre
The one story I really liked the beginning of sorry I don't know the name of it was rather Gothic, but since it had a curse in it i didn't feel comfortable reading it.
The other stories are I'm sure, just what the romance reader wants, I just didn't dig it,
Note: expect Tall, handsome heroes and pretty/plain heroines with spunk and in some characters, a bad case of naivety.
One girl falls for a Rake even though she has been warned and then, once she sees for herself what he is, promptly falls out of love with him and into love with the first handsome, dark stranger she meets.
There's a lesson well learnt, Thankfully this one was perfectly respectable and they were engaged within two days, Please don't see that as a spoiler, we all know the hero/heroine with be engaged quickly in a short story.
PG Perfectly clean with a few kisses, and mention of some characters philandering, This is exactly what I needed, I LOVED it! So fun to try the "short stories" for a change, Three of the authors: Donna Hatch, Sarah M Eden, and Joyce DiPastena are three of my favorite authors, so I had no doubt that I would love it.
I wasn't as familiar with the authors: Heidi Ashworth , Annette Lyon, and Heather B, Moore, but I thoroughly enjoyed their stories too and I'm excited to read more of their books! I loved the characters and the plots and thought they were amazingly developed for as "short" as they were.
I think they would have ALL made great full length novels as well, . . and was sad to see them end, but on another note it was actually kind of nice to be able to sit down, get my "happily ever after" in one sitting, rather then having to spend a week of being interrupted with "life" trying to "find out what happens".
: Such fun reads! So glad I bought this book! This is a lovely book full of sweet stories that will satisfy your craving for romance.
It was fun to see what each author came up with and how they put their own spin on "winter romance".
The time periods cover medieval, regency, the mid Victorian era but in Ireland and America and on through to the turn of the last century.
So much fun!.