I am a great fan of short stories. I love that particular form of fiction and I actually like some authors’ short stories better than their longer novels (Hemingway and Faulkner in particular). Christmas short stories are a particular favorite of mine. I have a dog-eared children’s book of Christmas short stories that I used to read each year as a child during the Christmas season. As an adult I’ve loved revisiting Louisa May Alcott and O. Henry’s short stories during the holiday seasons. With this background in mind, I was very happy to review a short story collection,
Merry Christmas Stories by Jeff R. Spalsbury this holiday season.
Merry Christmas Stories is an enjoyable collection of holiday stories in the vein of my favorite Christmas sentimental short story writers, O. Henry and Louisa May Alcott. The collection contains twenty-five short stories that range in genre from romance, detective stories, ghost stories, science fiction, family, road trip, etc. In general the stories are heart-warming stories about personal redemption, finding true love, or the lonely finding someone with whom to spend their Christmas.
I enjoyed all of these stories, but I think my favorites were “Tiny and the Bear,” “The Last S-2,” and “My Christmas Ghost.” “Tiny and the Bear” is a story about a father and a son that help out troubled travelers on Christmas Eve, but it has a great twist at the end. “The Last S-2” is a sci-fi story. I thought it was very a very unique Christmas story about a robot that is given an assignment to raise a colony of children and teach them about the first Christmas. “My Christmas Ghost” is about a man who finds love with a ghost. I always love a good ghost story.
Overall,
Merry Christmas Stories is an entertaining collection of Christmas stories that will warm your heart and appeal to the romantic in all.
I reviewed
Merry Christmas Stories as part of the TLC Book Tours. For a complete listing of stops on this tour, check out this
link.
Book Source: A signed copy from the author
Giveaway Details
I am going to send one lucky winner my review copy of
Merry Christmas Stories that is signed by the author.
If you would like to win a copy of
Merry Christmas Stories by Jeff R. Spalsbury please leave a comment about what intrigues you about the novel.
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The deadline for entry is midnight,
Monday December 12th.
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