A review by barefootsong
Burning Bright: Four Chanukah Love Stories by Megan Hart, Stacey Agdern, K.K. Hendin, Jennifer Gracen

3.0

This is an anthology of four novellas, so as with most anthologies, I liked some stories more than others, but they were all enjoyable. My favorite was the first story, "Miracle" by Megan Hart, about a young man leaving the Orthodox Jewish tradition and trying to find a place for himself outside of that. The last story, "All I Got" by KK Hendin, was the hardest to get into for me as an outsider as this one deals much more closely with Jewish and Israeli culture, without a lot of "translation" (literally at times, as this story used more Hebrew words, some of which were hard to figure out). I still enjoyed the cuteness of the romance in that last story, I just missed a lot of the nuances.

Overall, though, I'm really happy that this collection exists and I hope we now have a trend of Chanukah romances because I am totally an equal-opportunity winter holiday romance enthusiast.