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Merry And Bright (2013)

by Jill Shalvis(Favorite Author)

3.63 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0758291124 (ISBN13: 9780758291127)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Kensington

review 1: Three cute Christmas short stories. Don't know why but I go through these fazes throughout the year where I want to read Christmas stories!Finding Mr. Wright: Chemist Maggie Bell finds that a man she knew in high school, Jacob, is doing some renovation work at the company she works for. She hasn't had much luck with the guys who she thinks are ideal for her, so on the advice of a friend she decides to go for a guy who is totally opposite of her and Jacob is looking like the ideal candidate. Jacob's appearance couldn't have come at a better time in Maggie's life. Someone has been breaking into her office, her home, and has slashed her tires. Bah Handsome!: Hope is a Bed and Breakfast owner who is struggling financially. She took out a loan from her stepbrother who offered h... moreer terrible terms. Now the money is coming due and she isn't real sure how she's going to pay. It doesn't help matters when her brothers's financial solicitor appears at her door in a snow storm. Danny has very strong feelings and is concerned about Hope. He knows the money is coming due and wants to do everything he can to help her out. But Hope isn't exactly making things easy. It's a good thing Danny is just as stubborn as she is.Ms. Humbug: I'm pretty sure I've read this in another book before. Cami works as a city planner. She's been dating one of the guys in her office and it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Recent Mayoral elect, Matt, and Cami always seems to be fighting at opposite sides of the coin. And for Matt, this is a good thing. He loves Cami's intelligence and her spirit and isn't afraid to take advantage of a moment once presented. Not only do Cami and Matt find themselves in a developing romance, but they also find themselves in an office investigation. Someone seems determined to cause the downfall of many people in key administrative roles for the city and Cami and Matt are determined to find out who is behind it all.
review 2: So if it were 2005, 2007 or 2008, this would have been a 3-star read for me. Since it's actually 2014 it gets no stars because the core themes ("spinster" is it 1914?) and frequent use of the word anal instead of OCD make this collection very dated. Public library budgets have been slashed in most communities and it upsets me that my library spent some of its scarce resources on a repackaging of an established authors old stories instead of aother author's current title. This practice generates easy profits for publishers in the short-term, but it undercuts the industry, libraries, readers, and authors in the long-term. less

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