Release Date: October 14, 2014
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Pages: 320
Source: eARC for Review
Pages: 320
Source: eARC for Review
ISBN-10: 1250059305
Rating: 5 Hearts
Book Description
"If you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: TWELVE HOLIDAY STORIES by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins."
Review:
Short and Sweet:
This is an adorable collection of holiday tales, perfect for getting you in the end of the year/Christmas spirit!
To Elaborate...
As a lover of all things Christmas, including but not limited to: holiday movies, cookies, presents, TV specials, and music, I was SO EXCITED to read this. It absolutely holds up to the fun description. Many wonderful authors are featured in the collection including Rainbow Rowell, Laini Taylor, Myra McEntire, Kiersten White, Stephanie Perkins, etc. While their writing styles and their stories are all different, I highly enjoyed each and every one of them.
It's too hard to pick a favorite out of them all, but I particularly enjoyed Myra McEntire's "Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus". It takes place in Tennessee (where I live), and her story is an awesome mixture of A Walk to Remember and The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, but with a lot more giggles. I also enjoyed the opening story by Rainbow Rowell, which was all too adorable.
What pleasantly surprised me was the age of the characters. I would say that the majority of the stories featured older teens, several of which were in college, or out of high school. There was also an extraordinary amount of diversity in some of the characters that I absolutely loved. Christmas is mentioned in several stories, but the focus is really on the December/January holiday season in general.
If you're like me and count down to the 25 Days of Christmas on ABC Family every year (and/or own an eyebrow raising collection of holiday movies), this is quite possibly a perfect fit for you.
5 Hearts!
Thanks for the review! I haven't read any holiday stories before but I'm definitely putting this one on my list :)
ReplyDeleteMy True Love Gave to Me sounds fun and a great way to escape or get in the mood for the holidays. Right now, I'm in the mood for all things spooky and fall, but I'll keep this in mind for the winter holidays just around the corner. Thanks for letting us know the age group of the characters as well. Happy Friday :)
ReplyDeleteYay! I hope you like it!
ReplyDeleteIt is!! I love holiday stories anyway, but I think people who don't really gravitate towards them can still really like this one. It does a good job of making the particular holiday or season just the setting and not the main point of the story.
ReplyDeleteI understand the spooky fall stuff! I recently read Beware the Wild and The Fall, and they definitely fulfilled my Halloween season need. I just can't resist any end/beginning of the year holiday stories. :)
ReplyDeleteI've never read a Christmas book but this one sounds cute. I'm so excited for Christmas :)
ReplyDeleteI also read this collection recently and enjoyed it quite a bit. Not usually a huge fan of short stories, but there was a lot of diversity in the collection that made me really happy. Since these are some of my favorite authors, I'm glad I read this instead of skipping it.
ReplyDeleteMe too! It's my favorite time of the year. :)
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