My True Love
Gave to Me by Various YA authors
Published:
October 14, 2014
Publisher:
St. Martin’s Press
Format: via
NetGalley
Rating: 5/5
Synopsis
If
you love holiday stories, holiday movies, made-for-TV-holiday specials, holiday
episodes of your favorite sitcoms and, especially, if you love holiday
anthologies, you’re going to fall in love with MY TRUE LOVE GAVE TO ME: TWELVE
HOLIDAY STORIES by twelve bestselling young adult writers, edited by
international bestselling author Stephanie Perkins.
My Thoughts
Oh where do I start? I’ve always been a sucker for anthologies this one in particular is one
of the best. Where else can you get a roundup of some the best YA authors
around in one place? Some shorts were heart felt and touching while others were
just plain cute I couldn’t stand it! The book contains the following stories…
1 Midnights
by Rainbow Rowell
2 The Lady
and the Fox by Kelly Link
3 Angels in
the Snow by Matt De La Pena
4 Polaris is
Where You’ll Find Me by Jenny Han
5 It’s a
Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown by Stephanie Perkins
7
Krampuslauf by Holly Black
8 What the
Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? by Gayle Forman
9 Beer
Buckets and Baby Jesus by Myra McEntire
10 Welcome
to Christmas, CA by Kiersten White
11 Star of
Bethlehem by Ally Carter
12 The Girl
Who Woke the Dreamer by Laini Taylor
While I enjoyed
all the stories for different reasons, my personal faves where…
Midnights by Rainbow Rowell this one focuses on best friends
throughout the years on New Year’s Eve. We see how they meet and how the
friendship grows into something more. I love these two together and when they
finally kiss it’s just plain amazing. I was gitty and rooting for these two, classic
romance by Rainbow Rowell.
Polaris is Where You’ll Find Me
by Jenny Han Omg this is just the cutest thing I
ever read! Focusing on a human living in an elf world who is in love with
someone everyone else tells her it will never work out with. Sometimes the
heart wants what it wants despite logic or anything else.
Some reads
are realistic while others aren’t each one will make you look at the holidays
differently. There is at least one story that will touch your soul no doubt
about it. So do yourself a HUGE holiday favor and grab this book, you’re bound
to have a simply wonderful Christmastime reading this awesome book.
I'm going to look this one up right now, Monica! I love short stories and these would be great holiday reads leading up to Christmas. Thanks so much for another great review!
ReplyDeleteYes!! You are bound to love more than a few of these Xmas shorts.
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