Count me in as a reader who looks forward to Christmas novellas. This is a trio of historical romance novellas that will add some fun to the season. Overall, they were good, but not personal favorites.

There are three separate Christmas-themed historical romances in this book, and they are all well-crafted novellas. The stories are full of conflict, passion, and suspense. But, the best part is that they all have happy endings. The only thing I didn't like about them was that they ended too quickly. I recommend this book to anyone who loves a historical romance. I received an advanced reader's copy from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.

This book is the perfect choice when you don't have time for one full book. This is three novella-length short stories wrapped up in one.

These authors bring together three stories that will get you in the holiday love mood and ready for the season of feel-good moments. With insta-love abounding, these short stories are just what we need for a relaxing release and our own happily ever after.

Kissing Under the Mistletoe has so much love packed in here! It is a fun and fabulous choice for your holiday booklist!

This is a book of three novellas by 3 different authors. These will lighten your day and fill your heart with joy and they aren't so long as you need to feel guilty about taking an hour out of your day for other activities. This was the perfect Regency and I loved all the authors that they compiled in this.

Kissing under the Mistletoe is a happy read for the holidays featuring 3 novellas. The first is the best of the bunch.. Great Scot! features the MacTaggart family and a spinster companion who is hovering at the crossroads of her future. She must choose between being an unnecessary well-paid companion poorly suited for the position, being an unwanted house guest, or assuming a series of poorly recompensed companion positions. Instead she takes a leap toward proffered love. Christmas at Dewberry Hollow was, for this reader, the least successful of the three novellas focussing on a man who expects a virginal maiden to put out for him while he stays at an inn she helps run. Despite his shallowness, and her capitulation, there is a sweet backstory involving his grandfather’s love for his dead wife and tender caring treatment of a permanent inn guest who is suffering from memory loss. Still, I was flummoxed by his eventual decision to bring his home furnishings to the inn to propose. The 3rd novella, My Mistletoe Beau begins with the hero doing a strip tease for a female burglar he finds in his home as she sings a carol badly. He then inveigles her to be a fake beau for holiday festivities involving his grandmother. She agrees in exchange for the bauble she sought to steal. Their time together is bright with interest and intrigue. All told, a charming threesome of HEA stories.

I enjoyed this anthology. It was wonderful writing from all the authors. I would recommend this book to others.

Suzanne Enoch, Amelia Grey, and Anna Bennett once again demonstrate their well regarded reputation as masters of regency romance with Kissing Under The Mistletoe. Three short stories set during the holidays, we meet three feisty heroines and the men who fall in love (and lust!) with their spirited personalities. Set in Scotland, a celebrated inn, and the ubiquitous house party, Kissing Under The Mistletoe is delightful for dedicated regency romance lovers.

Kissing Under the Mistletoe follows the time proven novella formula of moving fast and finding love quickly in this case just in time for Christmas. In the latest installment of the load and boisterous, Scottish MacTaggerts, Lady Aldriss’s companion catches the eye of the MacTaggert’s architect cousin in an instant attraction and a super sweet matchup. Amelia Gray creates love between a Duke’s grandson and the unconventional daughter of the lady at the inn. Anna Bennett leads us down a trail of breaking and entering to fake coursing and then true love just in time for Christmas. Strong leading ladies each original and equally memorable find HEAs in fast paced, easy reading, feel good stories that will put you in the mood for a delightfully merry Christmas. The MacTaggert story is of course my favorite because the MacTaggerts always bring the goods but the other stories are fun, sweet entertainment. My voluntary, unbiased review is based upon a review copy from NetGalley.

In my opinion this is a 3.5 star read. These three novellas will warm and fill your heart with joy. Three authors that do not disappoint the reader. A sweet regency book to read absolutely without hesitation.

I greatly enjoyed reading this delightful anthology with Christmas as a back drop. This was an ARC through Netgalley My review is honest and simply my opinions on the three stories.

GREAT SCOT By Suzanne Enoch 4.5*
Brennan - a widower and an architect who is building his cousins (the MacTaggert's) a manor
Jane- a spinster who prefers being a paid companion vs being the poor relations and living off her cousins generosity.
Though I did not read the stories that preceded this one I still enjoyed it and am very happy to say the Their story has a wonderful and loving HEA. I was still able to connect to each character and enjoyed the story-line immensely, but my curiosity is peeked I might go and read the other books in the series.

CHRISTMAS AT DEWBERRY HOLLOW by Amelia Grey 5*
John /Gate - help his grandfather find a tree that he and his late wife carved their initials in
Isabelle - is the great-granddaughter of a viscount and helps run the upscale Inn with her mother.
This was a sweet and entertaining story, that had me captivated by the first few pages. Their story has a witty and loving HEA.

MY MISTLETOE BEAU by Anna Bennett 5*
Jack / Earl of Frostbough - heir to the dukedom- has a resentment towards Eva's dad.
Eva Tiding- the only child of a widowed viscount and is trying to get her dads pocket watch back to him.
I enjoyed reading this enemies to lover story with their barbs, verbal sparing as they were pretending to be in love for both to get what the want/need. excellent story. Their story has a Just and loving HEA!

This is such a powerhouse collection of Christmas romance stories. I have followed all three authors and was thrilled to have secured this copy from NetGalley.

Suzanne Enoch brings us to the Highlands to a sweet hero and a heroine breaking out of her shell. I love that the hero and heroine are mature individuals (early thirties). The hero is a widower (no emotional baggage) and the heroine has been a prim and proper companion. When they meet it was just so romantic in a quiet way and how they fell in love.

Amelia Gray presented a unique love story.- An aristocrat and an innkeeper’s daughter. They joined forces in search of a tree with an etching of the hero’s grandfather and grandmother.

Anna Bennet presented a story of pretend courtship that led to a real HEA.

All stories were superb with a good combination of character development, humor, twists and passion.

I love novellas. They are a quick intense and fun romance stories. I liked each story from the three different authors. They all had great characters that showed great feeling. It was a great read.

Great Scott by Suzanne Enoch (❄❄)
After losing her job as a lady companion for helping her cousin elope , Jane Bansil moves to Scotland with said cousin and her husband. But life in the boisterous MacTaggert household isn't easy and Jane finds herself missing the silence and solitude...Which she just might find with a certain architect.

A decent enough short story if it weren't for the heroine and her skittish ways and the instantaneous romance. It is part of a series (the first three books are on my TBR pile), but you don't have to be deep into the Wild Wicked Highlanders lore and history to follow what's what...You do need plenty of suspension of disbelief, though, in the romance department.

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Christmas at Dewberry Hollow by Amelia Grey (❄)
A duke and his grandson come to Deweberry Hollow to find a heart-engraved tree, a memento of the duke's late wife. But with that amount of trees, the duke's grandson will need all the help he can get.

Insta-love/lust on steroids, complicated by the shortness of the story (preventing any real character or story development) and the heroine's stubborn attitude toward love shaped by the fact her heart was a little bit bruised when she was twelve. I'm all for conflict and angst, but this was too much.

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My Mistletoe Beau by Anna Bennett (❄❄❄❄)
Determined to get back the pocket watch her late mother gave her father who recently lost it in a card game, Evy Tiding breaks into the bachelor lodgings of the man who supposedly swindled her papa for the watch. He catches her in the act and proposes a daring scheme—they would pretend they're courting to appease his grandmother and in the end, Eva will get the watch back...

Another case of insta-love, but at least this one was fun. The banter and barbs flying between Eva and Jack served as foreplay, the story (though still short) was just long enough for the romance to really develop and the characters to appropriately change and grow, the supporting cast offered a nice backdrop and fodder for the backstory and the requisite conflict, and the two main characters were just so cute and adorable.

This story definitely saved this otherwise lackluster anthology.

Novellas are not usually my thing but holiday historicals can be so comforting and who can so no to a collection to a collection from these three authors? This was easy to tear through in an evening and made for a pleasant time although the length really kept them from being anything more than nice little snippets. To me, there was nothing that made them especially memorable but they were enjoyable.

I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

'Kissing Under the Mistletoe' is a Christmas anthology of novellas which elicited varying responses for me. I enjoyed the first two stories, but they were diminished with explicit sexual scenes. The third was just too much, and not up to the standard of the other two with references not in keeping with the Regency period.

I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley. The opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.

Three Regency novellas set during Christmas. The first takes you back to Scotland with the MacTaggert clan. Kudos to the author for not making the heroine a young woman entering marrying age but rather a slightly older woman. The next two novellas felt a bit similar to me and I found the leading men more interesting than the women. The last one’s writing also felt more modern rather than of that time period which threw me off. References like “eww” and using “town” rather than “ton” seemed to take my head out of the story.

Overall a fine trio of novellas but nothing I would go out of my way to read again.

Thanks to NetGalley and St Martins for the arc.

Three Short Stories
Great Scot by Suzanne Enoch - Jane is the quiet one, the poor relation who fades into the background and works as a companion. In this story, at the grand old age of three-and-thirty she finds her true love, whilst spending Christmas in the snowy Highlands of Scotland. Do wish there had been an epilogue.
Christmas at Dewberry Hollow by Amelia Grey - Isabelle knows the heartache of falling for a guest at her family inn and is determined not to lose her heart to another man making empty promises. But even knowing that he will leave cannot protect her.
My Mistletoe Beau by Anna Bennett - In trying to retrieve a family object of great sentimental value, Eva gets embroiled in a fake relationship scheme. The relationship is fake, until it isn’t!
I voluntarily read and reviewed an advanced copy of this book from NetGalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

Kissing Under the Mistletoe is a three book novella collection with a good story by Suzanne Enoch, a meh story by Amelia Grey, and a great story by Anna Bennett. My feelings on the novellas tends to reflect my feelings for full length novels by each of these authors. Enoch's is a solid story about a slightly older young woman serving as a lady's maid that meets and falls in love with the less lordly architect cousin of her own cousin's husband. This story ties in to a trilogy written by Enoch, which can be read standalone, but it's helpful to read the other stories. Grey's story features an aristocratic mother and daughter running an inn that welcomes a duke and his grandson when the duke wants to find an old tree he and his deceased wife carved a heart into as young lovers. While certainly plausible, it seems like a flimsy plot for bringing the characters together, and most of the main characters have moments where they aren't particularly likable. Last but not least is Bennett's story about a woman who sneaks into a duke's bedroom to retrieve a watch lost by her father in a wager. The duke proposes a fake romance in exchange for the watch - and fireworks proceed to happen between the pair. This story seems to have the most emotional intensity between the characters, and also covers a longer period of time, making the romance seem more plausible and less rushed.

Three great short stories set at Christmas. I really enjoyed these stories. Recommend for historical romance fans.

For lover's of both Christmas stories and romantic anthologies, Kissing Under the Mistletoe is a must read. With three well-written stories by veteran authors, readers will enjoy every page. A must read!