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A review by midwestbookfiend
Wrap Me Up: Holiday Anthology by Carly Phillips, Sierra Simone, L.H. Cosway, Skye Warren, Julia Kent, Penny Reid, Catherine Cowles, K.A. Linde, Debra Anastasia
fast-paced
2.5
This is a collection of Christmassy short stories.
Songbird was sweet and cute! Definitely had Christmas vibes, and I love the open-endedness the story left. A good start to the collection. This is one of my 2 favorites from the series. A poor woman loves to sing and has no family on Christmas Eve. She meets a dazzling stranger and they share a magical evening together. No spice. It was great.
Making Her Melt is a hot friends to lovers story. I enjoyed the tension in this one! There was a very weird sex scene that I thought was going to turn into something other than it was, but it didn’t. But this was pretty good.
My Present This Year is by the queen Sierra Simone and boy was this spicy and hot! Based on the Folgers commercial from like 10 years ago. 😂 but this delivered alllll the spice. Not much else lol. My other favorite from the collection.
Christmas Shopping for a Billionaire was not good. The title didn’t even make sense, and the premise was just bad. I don’t understand how this made it through editing. A group of mystery shoppers have to be Santa and a slutty elf, and somehow there’s a Russian scammer in it? Unhinged in a bad way.
Snowbound was okay but needed to be longer. A woman has a stalker and decides to run away to her brother’s best friend’s house in the middle of the night to escape him. Then he shows up. It’s only about 40 pages and needs to be twice as long for me to care about the characters. Not bad, but not great.
One Cruel Wedding Night is an arranged marriage between a billionaire and a broke socialite who hate each other but are attracted to each other. This has been done a lot. It’s just alright. The spice is decent, but that’s about all.
Songbird was sweet and cute! Definitely had Christmas vibes, and I love the open-endedness the story left. A good start to the collection. This is one of my 2 favorites from the series. A poor woman loves to sing and has no family on Christmas Eve. She meets a dazzling stranger and they share a magical evening together. No spice. It was great.
Making Her Melt is a hot friends to lovers story. I enjoyed the tension in this one! There was a very weird sex scene that I thought was going to turn into something other than it was, but it didn’t. But this was pretty good.
My Present This Year is by the queen Sierra Simone and boy was this spicy and hot! Based on the Folgers commercial from like 10 years ago. 😂 but this delivered alllll the spice. Not much else lol. My other favorite from the collection.
Christmas Shopping for a Billionaire was not good. The title didn’t even make sense, and the premise was just bad. I don’t understand how this made it through editing. A group of mystery shoppers have to be Santa and a slutty elf, and somehow there’s a Russian scammer in it? Unhinged in a bad way.
Snowbound was okay but needed to be longer. A woman has a stalker and decides to run away to her brother’s best friend’s house in the middle of the night to escape him. Then he shows up. It’s only about 40 pages and needs to be twice as long for me to care about the characters. Not bad, but not great.
One Cruel Wedding Night is an arranged marriage between a billionaire and a broke socialite who hate each other but are attracted to each other. This has been done a lot. It’s just alright. The spice is decent, but that’s about all.