Secretly Smitten by Colleen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck,Denise Hunter, and Diann Hunt was provided to me free in e-book format as part
of the BookSneeze program of the Thomas Nelson Publishing Company in exchange
for my honest review here.
Secretly Smitten is a set of four short stories all centered
around a family in Smitten, Vermont.
The stories work together to tell a bigger story, but each one is a tale of its
own. A set of dog tags are found in Grandma’s attic, which sets her three
granddaughters on the trail to solve the mystery of how they got there. During
the search, each girl (and their mother) in turn meets a man and falls in love.
The stories are sweet and mostly believable. It annoyed me slightly that the “happy
ending” of each book is wrapped up quickly, without the expected “one year
later…” I thought perhaps at the end of the book itself, one epilogue to wrap
up all the stories… nope. So the marriage of each lady is left to the reader’s
imagination. It’s only a little confusing when the new short story begins and
mentions the main character of the previous book, and the reader can’t tell (at
least this reader couldn’t) if the marriage had already taken place.
Perhaps that won’t bother any other reader… and really in
the grand scheme of things, it’s only a little “weird” and doesn’t make for a
bad read. All in all, the stories were entertaining and fun!
*Ü* Blessings,
