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Baby, It's Cold Outside
by Emma Chase, Kristen Proby, Jennifer Probst
Searching for You by Jennifer Probst
This author is the reason I picked up the book. I have mostly been enjoying the "Searching For" series about a group of matchmakers who are also finding their own true love. This story is about one of their matches.
Dylan and Riley were at grad school together but they weren't friends. Most definitely not. So when they're matched by Kinnections (at 100%, no less) it's a total shock to them both.
This is one of those stories that definitely could have benefited from being full-length but it's a nice one nonetheless. I always like when the H/H from shorter stories new each other before so it's not so much insta-lust.
It's a Wonderful Tangled Christmas Carol by Emma Chase
Oh. This poor story. So many things that I didn't like. It won't make me not read the author again but... issues. First, grammar problems in the title. Then, first-person (not POV I enjoy). Also, it seems that this story would be more enjoyed by people who had read (what I can only assume exists) the first book. I didn't feel like I got to know the characters well at all.
Saving Grace by Kristen Proby
Another book from a series! Theme much here? This was definitely an insta-lust story but the author saved it by the true promise of an HEA happening further down the line (not in the first two days of meeting).
Grace's friends want to do a girls' weekend in Colorado. Skiing. But Grace, despite living in a ski-resort town in Montana, doesn't downhill ski. See, she's a klutz. I wish I would've counted the number of times she feel in this story but, for a novella-type story, it was an awful lot.
Other than that, I liked the story quite a bit with getting to know the characters a little and the one Big Misunderstanding being cleared up pretty fast.
Safe in His Arms by Melody Anne
Okay, I realize I'm being pulled out of the suspension-of-disbelief here, but to think that a school board, even a school board of meddling old (is sixties really that old?) women, would choose a teacher based on looks alone (at least that's strongly implied) is just ooky to me. They're more concerned with bringing in a wife than a teacher. Yipes. Especially when they hire a teacher who shows up in Montana (in December) with only So-Cal clothes. Um, I realize it's short notice and that she's excited but what kind of teacher (!) doesn't do her research. And the mess that Natalie is... Ugh. No wonder they choose this title.
Rekindle the Flame by Kate Meader
A really great end to the anthology. Beck Rivera and Darcy Cochrane were high school sweethearts but he decided that they'd be better off apart. As a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, he knows he'd just bring this society princess down.
But that was seven years ago, and both Kate and Beck have done some growing up. Can he convince her that he knows he made a mistake, that both have grown up enough to now be together?
This author is the reason I picked up the book. I have mostly been enjoying the "Searching For" series about a group of matchmakers who are also finding their own true love. This story is about one of their matches.
Dylan and Riley were at grad school together but they weren't friends. Most definitely not. So when they're matched by Kinnections (at 100%, no less) it's a total shock to them both.
This is one of those stories that definitely could have benefited from being full-length but it's a nice one nonetheless. I always like when the H/H from shorter stories new each other before so it's not so much insta-lust.
It's a Wonderful Tangled Christmas Carol by Emma Chase
Oh. This poor story. So many things that I didn't like. It won't make me not read the author again but... issues. First, grammar problems in the title. Then, first-person (not POV I enjoy). Also, it seems that this story would be more enjoyed by people who had read (what I can only assume exists) the first book. I didn't feel like I got to know the characters well at all.
Saving Grace by Kristen Proby
Another book from a series! Theme much here? This was definitely an insta-lust story but the author saved it by the true promise of an HEA happening further down the line (not in the first two days of meeting).
Grace's friends want to do a girls' weekend in Colorado. Skiing. But Grace, despite living in a ski-resort town in Montana, doesn't downhill ski. See, she's a klutz. I wish I would've counted the number of times she feel in this story but, for a novella-type story, it was an awful lot.
Other than that, I liked the story quite a bit with getting to know the characters a little and the one Big Misunderstanding being cleared up pretty fast.
Safe in His Arms by Melody Anne
Okay, I realize I'm being pulled out of the suspension-of-disbelief here, but to think that a school board, even a school board of meddling old (is sixties really that old?) women, would choose a teacher based on looks alone (at least that's strongly implied) is just ooky to me. They're more concerned with bringing in a wife than a teacher. Yipes. Especially when they hire a teacher who shows up in Montana (in December) with only So-Cal clothes. Um, I realize it's short notice and that she's excited but what kind of teacher (!) doesn't do her research. And the mess that Natalie is... Ugh. No wonder they choose this title.
Rekindle the Flame by Kate Meader
A really great end to the anthology. Beck Rivera and Darcy Cochrane were high school sweethearts but he decided that they'd be better off apart. As a boy from the wrong side of the tracks, he knows he'd just bring this society princess down.
But that was seven years ago, and both Kate and Beck have done some growing up. Can he convince her that he knows he made a mistake, that both have grown up enough to now be together?