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My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories
by Stephanie Perkins
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.
Originally posted at I Heart YA Fiction: http://iheartyafiction.blogspot.com/2014/09/review-my-true-love-gave-to-me-edited.html
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.
Originally posted at I Heart YA Fiction: http://iheartyafiction.blogspot.com/2014/09/review-my-true-love-gave-to-me-edited.html