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lisaluvsliterature 's review for:
Love Stories: A Novella Collection
by Samantha Young
So, since Samantha Young is an auto-buy/auto-read author for me, I don’t even necessarily read the blurb when I sign up for any contemporary book by her. In my mind this was going to be a bunch of novellas about couples I already knew from her other books. Instead it was four completely standalone stories. Honestly, I really enjoyed them all! My only issues had to be with the first two were much older men type of relationships, and I don’t really care for those that much, or at least they’re not my favorite types of reads since I’m personally more attracted to younger men. And the other issue was that the female characters in the first two books had names that are more male to me from my own experience. So once in awhile it’d mess with my reading and remembering which character.
But it doesn’t matter, all of the stories were really good! I did really like the first one despite the age difference. In fact there was a line the heroine had that so relates to what I have been saying to myself about a guy I like who keeps complaining about not finding the right woman, or that women don’t seem to like him.
“It’s me, you fool!”
I have something similar running through my head every time I read a social media post by my friend, so I get where Evan was coming from.
The second story was a little harder for me to read, since it was an older sister but with the dad of her younger sister’s husband. That was just too much for me, even if their age differences weren’t as great as you might think for that type of a relationship.
Jumping into the third story I was relieved to see a story about a couple the same age. And it became my favorite of the bunch really quickly! I loved how it all unfolded for Valentine and Micah.
And finally, the fourth story probably tied with the third for me because it was about an older woman and younger man. But there were definitely some frustrating things that happened between Ember and Foster. However I loved the whole single dad bit and I definitely developed my own little crush on Foster.
Overall a really fun collections of novellas by one of my all time favorite authors, Samantha Young.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.
But it doesn’t matter, all of the stories were really good! I did really like the first one despite the age difference. In fact there was a line the heroine had that so relates to what I have been saying to myself about a guy I like who keeps complaining about not finding the right woman, or that women don’t seem to like him.
“It’s me, you fool!”
I have something similar running through my head every time I read a social media post by my friend, so I get where Evan was coming from.
The second story was a little harder for me to read, since it was an older sister but with the dad of her younger sister’s husband. That was just too much for me, even if their age differences weren’t as great as you might think for that type of a relationship.
Jumping into the third story I was relieved to see a story about a couple the same age. And it became my favorite of the bunch really quickly! I loved how it all unfolded for Valentine and Micah.
And finally, the fourth story probably tied with the third for me because it was about an older woman and younger man. But there were definitely some frustrating things that happened between Ember and Foster. However I loved the whole single dad bit and I definitely developed my own little crush on Foster.
Overall a really fun collections of novellas by one of my all time favorite authors, Samantha Young.
Review first posted on Lisa Loves Literature.