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A Regency Holiday (2011)

by Allison Lane(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 3

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bell Bridge Books

review 1: Hands-down the best Christmas anthology I've read this year.I finished the first story and called up my mother to make sure this book was on her reading list. In involved a lady of negotiable virtue, a bluestocking, and a marriage proposal in five languages. It's like kryptonite for me. That story alone would have made the book worthwhile, but the other three stories were also pretty darn good. I wished for all of them to be a bit longer, which is a good sign that I was engaged in the worlds.The story in the second novella was a bit contrived, but I forgive it for this line:"Sometimes she’d longed for a different life, though, one with fewer sheep, closer neighbors, and friends her own age."Don't most of us long for a life with fewer sheep? The heroines are a bluestockin... moreg, a fierce and lonely country lady, a badly-abused jilt, and a free-spirited young mother. None of the stories has that deadly sameness to them that can make anthologies bog down so badly.Read if: You would like a little Christmas romance cheer. You like to see romances where the heroine is not a teenager. You have a soft spot for squishy romantic guys.Skip if: You are not in the mood for romance. You want a naif as heroine. You don't like men who love kids for their own sake.Also read: You should just buy this one.
review 2: I was in the mood for a little Christmas romance, and these stories hit the spot. Coventry's Christmas by Rebecca Hagan Lee was a very strong start for the collection, and I was delighted by how so many small things brought the hero and heroine together. The middle two stories were good but didn't feel as complete as the first and last stories. The last story was a reprint I hadn't read before, Home for Christmas by Alicia Rasley, and I'm going to have to seek out more of her work. Her story some mystery and fleshed out the main characters quite well in a fairly short amount of space. less

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