Making Spirits Bright

Making Spirits Bright | Nan Rossiter, Fern Michaels, Rosalind Noonan, Elizabeth Bass

so-so

Four novellas in one by four different authors.
Making Spirits Bright - 1*, absolutely dreadful. Besides the story making 0% sense, the entire plot of a rich woman just deciding she wishes she had a kid or two and immediately just running out to try and rush through an adoption felt honestly icky, like kids were a commodity that she could just go out and buy on a whim like a puppy. It was weird. But maybe I'm sensitive to it because my youngest ā¬‡

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) sister was adopted out of foster care, so I kept saying, ā€that isn't how any of this works?!ā€
Runaway Christmas - 3.5*, best of the bunch. Fun story where a teen runs away to visit her aunt in NYC for Christmas. However, the aunt is having a rough couple of days where things keep going wrong and she keeps getting saddled with more random responsibilities (starting with the neighbor's dog and escalating from there). Super fun and cute. ā¬‡ 1w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) Home for Christmas - 3*, the FMC is a single mom and once read ONE book by ONE person saying that single moms shouldn't date because it can make your kid feel insecure and unloved (or something) so she literally spends the story snogging her crush in a garage at night after the kid has gone to bed. I just. The rest of the story about saving the inn was fun, but the romance was dumb.

Christmas on Cape Cod - 2*, Would have been higher if ā¬‡ 1w

TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) the author could have been bothered to take two paragraphs to explain to me how these characters are related/how they ended up where they are. I don't know if these characters are from other books by this author so she just assumed I already knew everyone, but I THINK what happened is is Guy A was dating Girl and she got pregnant and they broke up and Girl married Guy B and then a few years later Guy B died so the kid went back to Guy A ā¬‡ 1w

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TheAromaofBooks (cont'd) who is the actual birth dad?? Or something?? This was actually a perfectly pleasant little story about a single dad and his son getting a puppy for Christmas and realizing the girl next door is hot stepmom material, but I couldn't enjoy it because I spent the entire 80 pages in detective mode trying to figure out what the heck was going on with these people based on vague hints from the author. SO annoying. 1w

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Bookwormjillk Story #1 yikes 1w

TheAromaofBooks @Bookwormjillk - It was extra weird because I've read other books by Fern Michaels and enjoyed them, but this one was just bizarre. 1w

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BookmarkTavern Oof, yeah that first one feels icky to me too! Hope the next read is better! 1w

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