Title: Mail-Order Brides for Christmas
Authors: Fiona Davenport, Frankie Love,
Hope Ford, Kelli Callahan, S.E. Law & Tracy Lorraine
Genre: Steamy Mail Order Bride Romance
Release Date: November 17, 2020
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The Mistletoe Brothers are ready to save Snow Valley … even if it means marrying complete strangers.
The six women who arrive in this mountainside town all have very different reasons for agreeing to an arranged marriage. And none of them quite know what to make of the six ruggedly handsome brothers who greet them.
But they do know this: there’s no turning back.
It’s Christmas, the season for miracles … but is it also the season for falling in love?
Join six of your favorite romance authors this holiday as they show you around the most romantic town you’ve ever visited. It’s got an ice-skating rink where you can hold hands, hot cocoa to sip by the fire, and plenty of mistletoe that you can kiss under. This collection of all new stories are filled with high heat...because with six brothers, there are plenty of packages to unwrap.
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Review:
Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
Mail-Order Brides for Christmas is a collection of (very) short stories from 6 different authors. Each story focuses on a different brother, though they have a common thing. You see, in order to save the town, the brothers need to be married and their mother has arranged a bride for each of them through a mail-order service. Some stories were good, some not so much but all had one thing in common. They were too short. I felt like Nate had some serious issues that he needed to take care of for example. Each story is like 50 pages long and there wasn't enough room for the romance to develop a little, so most of them felt abrupt. If the book had been 600 pages long instead of 300, I believe that I would have rated it higher. Also, you should know that3 of the heroines are virgins (but relatively young) and the rest are more experienced. As usual, all 6 heroes have done the deed. What bothered me the most though, was the lack of communication between the brothers. Only the prologue and the epilogue featured scenes with all of them together. It was like each guy was an only child.
Christopher by Fiona Davenport is my favorite story of the six. The characters were the most developed and I felt like the characters belonged to each other. I wanted to read more about these two because I loved them together not because I wasn't convinced about their feelings. (5 stars)
Hartley by Frankie Love had one of the tropes I have come to hate. Hartley slept around a lot, and of course, the heroine is a virgin. Should I mention that Hattie ran into some of Hartley's past women? She was such a sweetheart for someone like him. (2 stars)
Mason by Hope Ford was another good story. I would have loved to read an extended story on these two because it could be a very angsty story and I am dying for that kind of a story. You see Mia met a man she was interested in on the plane ride to meet Mason and there is jealousy on his part. Mason has a scar from the war and he thinks that Mia won't want him because of it and that's even more conflict. I gave this story 4 stars because it missed the opportunity to harvest the angst.
Nate by Kelli Callahan was a bit problematic for me because as I mentioned before, Hartley seemed to have some issues with smoking and drinking and I felt a little uncomfortable. He does all that behind his family's backs like he is a junkie. He really needed to either quit or come clean to his family. (1 star)
Matt by S.E. Law had interesting main characters, but it didn't have the same appeal as Christopher and Mason did. Probably because I didn't actually like the heroine. This story was inconsistent with the rest of the anthology because it takes place in July. The prologue though, which is when Joy announces to her sons that they have to get married, takes place in November. (2 stars)
I am not going to touch the subject of "Spencer by Tracy Lorraine". I will only say that this is kinda a second chance romance and that the heroine is a virgin while the "hero" was sleeping around. He is not a good person and I didn't like having him around. (1 star)
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