Showing you some of my favorite Christmas reads 📚🎄
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The Night Before Christmas by Clement C. Moore (not the same edition)
My True Love Gave to Me (new edition)
One Day in December by Josie Silver
The Christmasaurus by Tom Fletcher
Secret Santa by Andrew Shaffer
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My True Love Gave To Me is a collection of short stories by twelve different authors that have a winter romance theme to them.
Let’s start of by mentioning all of the authors of this book:
Holly Black, Ally Carter, Matt de la Peña, Gayle Forman, Jenny Han, David Levithan, Kelly Link, Myra McEntire, Stephanie Perkins, Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor and Kiersten White. The book was edited by Stephanie Perkins.
So there are a bunch of authors in here that are in the wind these days. That combined with the gorgeous cover (both the American and the British one. I have the british cover) has made this such a popular book of 2014. And like so many others I chose to read this one around Christmas time.
I don’t read a lot of purely romance novels as I am a fantasy and science fiction kind of gal, but there are some fantasy elements and such in some of these short stories which made me really curious and made it a good read on my part.
I think I went into this one with a little too high expectations because of all the hype that’s been surrounding this book and I did end up a bit disappointed even though I really enjoyed some of the stories. That being said, I think it is amazing that so many fantastic writers can come together to do a project as this one. I love myself some short stories from time to time and I think it was a brave move for them to go all in with this one. Well done! I would love to see more of similar kinds of short story collections.
The stories that I enjoyed the most are:
This collection was definitely entertaining but I felt like it had potential for so much more awesomeness!
I ended up giving it a three out of five stars (maybe a 3,5). An easy and light hearted read to get into the Christmas spirit, just don’t expect too much.
One of my favorite quotes:
“She wanted to be free, and if she could never be free, at least she wanted to be brave – brave enough not to sell herself, no matter what the payment, or the cost of refusing.”
-Laini Taylor
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Do you have any favorite short story collections? I would love to hear your recommendations 🙂
Christina de Vries 