Saturday, December 20, 2025

Review: WINTER’S EMBRACE Anthology

 


A woman just bought a fixer-upper house and gets close with her realtor. Who would’ve thought that a woman would meet her crush window shopping? An overworked mother and wife gets a nice holiday surprise.

 

Sweet and lovely holiday stories!

 

Rating: 4 stars

Review: MISTLETOE MURDER by Leslie Meier

 


Lucy Stone was working her night job when she stumbled across a suicide in the parking lot. But Lucy didn’t really thing the death was a suicide.

 

The narrative was nice and easy, but slow. Spent too much time on the rat race of Christmas and not enough time on the mystery. It was an okay read, but I just expected more of it.

 

Rating: 3 stars

Review: AVOIDING MY MERRY BIRTHDAY by Sonja Gunter


It was Christmas Eve and Gloria’s birthday, and it seemed nothing was going right. No birthday wishes and her car stalled at work. At first, this sounded pretty good, but then I quickly lost interest by the middle of chapter 2. I was too bogged down by the character’s neurotic ramblings. I didn’t even know what she was talking about half of the time. Just a bad read.

 

Rating: 2 stars

Review: TWO HANDS TO HOLD by Sheila Fowler

 


It all started with the discovery of two hands on the beach with one of them wearing the ring of Allie’s brother. Who did these hands belong to and why did they have his old class ring? The mystery was set and lured you in right away.

 

This story was told in the POV of Blake and Arianna. Unfortunately, these characters weren’t very interesting on this case. Basically, we had a lawyer and a medical examiner. In the first book, we had Allie as the chief of police, which made more sense in solving a crime. It didn’t take long for me to lose interest with this. Just too boring!

 

Rating: 2 stars

Review: DIDN’T SEE YOU COMING by Gabbi Grey

 


This one didn’t quite grab me at the beginning with all the “coming out” talk, which was very dull. I was like, c’mon, get to it already! Unfortunately, it didn’t get any better as you read on. The whole thing was just so boring! It had me yawning the whole time. Just too boring!

 

Rating: 1 star