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A review by steph01924
Mistletoe Christmas: An Anthology by Eloisa James, Erica Ridley, Christi Caldwell, Janna MacGregor
2.0
This was fine. Two stars only because I didn't finish 3/4 of the stories in their entirety.
- The first one about Lady Cressida, who runs the Revelry, was decent enough. Stick it to your shitty dad, Cressie!
- I didn't care for how dense Cyrus was in the second and they got back together too quickly for me.
- Stephen got very schmoopy and the story became entirely too sappy at the end where I skimmed to, especially knowing the way he treated her during their first year of marriage. I also didn't like how Caroline, at the end, was like, "oh, this was my fault too. I could've done better." Like...your husband ignores you except for in the bedroom for a year, and you told him you didn't like it, but he didn't change so you left to find your own autonomy, and YOU'RE in the wrong somehow? Lady, I think not.
- The last story featuring Louisa by Erica Ridley was sounding VERY similar to the characters from her most recent novel I just read, where the woman's mom is desperately pawning her daughter off on any man with a hint of money and she just goes along with it because she's like a broken doll. I know how it ends; I read it already, also, the guy she's going to fall in love with is a poet and you know how I feel about those.
I'm pretty sure others are going to enjoy this a lot more than I will; wasn't horribly written, but like opening an uninspired set of body wash from B&BW at a white elephant party, I wasn't looking for what this was giving, so I'm regifting to someone else.
- The first one about Lady Cressida, who runs the Revelry, was decent enough. Stick it to your shitty dad, Cressie!
- I didn't care for how dense Cyrus was in the second and they got back together too quickly for me.
- Stephen got very schmoopy and the story became entirely too sappy at the end where I skimmed to, especially knowing the way he treated her during their first year of marriage. I also didn't like how Caroline, at the end, was like, "oh, this was my fault too. I could've done better." Like...your husband ignores you except for in the bedroom for a year, and you told him you didn't like it, but he didn't change so you left to find your own autonomy, and YOU'RE in the wrong somehow? Lady, I think not.
- The last story featuring Louisa by Erica Ridley was sounding VERY similar to the characters from her most recent novel I just read, where the woman's mom is desperately pawning her daughter off on any man with a hint of money and she just goes along with it because she's like a broken doll. I know how it ends; I read it already, also, the guy she's going to fall in love with is a poet and you know how I feel about those.
I'm pretty sure others are going to enjoy this a lot more than I will; wasn't horribly written, but like opening an uninspired set of body wash from B&BW at a white elephant party, I wasn't looking for what this was giving, so I'm regifting to someone else.