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A review by impybelle
All for You: An Anthology by Bella Andre, Susan Mallery, Gena Showalter, Lori Foster
2.0
Meh.
Halfway There was probably my favorite of the bunch because I wanted to know more about the town and Fayrene's (...seriously?) sisters.
Buckhorn Ever After was... eh. I think this is one that would've worked better a little longer OR if I was familiar with the stories that had come before since it felt like I was supposed to ooh and ahhh every time a new character appeared. I really liked the cat, though.
The One You Want is the longest of the bunch and after awhile I started to wonder why, oh why, it didn't just have its own book. It probably would've been better served that way, so you could flesh out Dane's tragic backstory and given me more reason to cheer (I guess?) when Kenna gets her total wish fulfillment ending.
Annnnnnnd One Perfect Night really needed the extra pages that obviously went to The One You Want because it's "boy meets girl on skip trip, gets first name and nothing more, and then must find her. Story has like 20 pages so luckily he and girl know the same PI, get fixed up, and it's instant love. Tada, jazz hands!" Noah and Colbie probably could've been interesting if we'd had more than three seconds to get to know them. I could've been on board for more of Colbie's friends. But as it was... eh.
Mostly I spent the book wondering whether the odd names were intentional or not. And if they were, why was Colbie the only one who had anyone call attention to it? And then I spun off on a weird mental tangent about what made a name weird and who gave me the authority to call a name unusual (even in my own head) and basically the stories weren't bad, but I'm probably not the audience they were going for.
Halfway There was probably my favorite of the bunch because I wanted to know more about the town and Fayrene's (...seriously?) sisters.
Buckhorn Ever After was... eh. I think this is one that would've worked better a little longer OR if I was familiar with the stories that had come before since it felt like I was supposed to ooh and ahhh every time a new character appeared. I really liked the cat, though.
The One You Want is the longest of the bunch and after awhile I started to wonder why, oh why, it didn't just have its own book. It probably would've been better served that way, so you could flesh out Dane's tragic backstory and given me more reason to cheer (I guess?) when Kenna gets her total wish fulfillment ending.
Annnnnnnd One Perfect Night really needed the extra pages that obviously went to The One You Want because it's "boy meets girl on skip trip, gets first name and nothing more, and then must find her. Story has like 20 pages so luckily he and girl know the same PI, get fixed up, and it's instant love. Tada, jazz hands!" Noah and Colbie probably could've been interesting if we'd had more than three seconds to get to know them. I could've been on board for more of Colbie's friends. But as it was... eh.
Mostly I spent the book wondering whether the odd names were intentional or not. And if they were, why was Colbie the only one who had anyone call attention to it? And then I spun off on a weird mental tangent about what made a name weird and who gave me the authority to call a name unusual (even in my own head) and basically the stories weren't bad, but I'm probably not the audience they were going for.