The Most Wonderful Time by Fern Michaels; Stacy Finz; Sarah Title; Shirlee McCoy

What a nice collection of four short Christmas storied! I gobble up Christmas romances this time each year, and I love shorter ones that are easy to consume in one sitting. Shirlee McCoy's my favorite of the four, but all were nice and heartwarming. Each had a happily ever after and, for the most part, the book is low steam. Just what I like at Christmas. I want to go find full-length books by some of these authors now!

Wonderful set of stories for the holidays. The holidays always had an unexpected twist. These stories are no exception. There are a few unexpected twists and plenty of romance. You will love reading all of these stories and adding them to your library. Entertaining characters in each of the stories to follow. Enjoy this holiday group of books.

This is a sweet, Christmas romance anthology. Each of the four stories has a different plot, from a woman overcoming her grief at losing her husband three years earlier, a second chance romance, a sweet meeting up at a wedding and another second chance romance while dealing with the loss of a father, who was mean and nasty to his family. These were all feel-good romances, all set at Christmas. With various degrees of Christmas customs and celebrations, they all had some festive feeling. I enjoyed them all, but I think I liked “Christmas Passed” by Fern Michaels the best. I read this one over a few days as I read each story in between some of the thrillers and dramas I have been reading. With Novella November, these anthologies fit right in with my reading. My biggest complaint is that is hard to have a developed plot or characters with a short story. I would have liked a bit more. If you enjoy short, sweet stories with a holiday twist, then pick this one up.

The Most Wonderful Time is an sweet Christmas romance anthology. They are in a way all the same but also all very different. In these four stories there is getting over loss, there are weddings, finding the long lost love, there are relatives, who nudge/push the happy couple together and the end is always the same - two lost souls find each other.

A sweet holiday read.