Grab your favorite Christmas cookies and a glass of milk and settle in for this year’s Authors of Main Street holiday collection! The Authors of Main Street have teamed up to provide you not only with seven wonderfully sweet stories this season, but cookie recipes to go with them!
This is a very nice selection of small town romances. Great way to try out some new authors.
The recipes are a very nice bonus too.
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This is a wonderful collection of heartwarming stories right a the holiday season and each contain a Christmas Cookie Receipe which was charming!
The Gingerbread Caper by Jude Knight
First I loved the cover with a cat looking through a magnifying glass at a mouse. Knew there had to be some mystery here and there was! While her Aunt Margaret went on a trip, Meg had been left with the running of her aunt’s bakery & tearoom. She also was left with a new tenant who was staying in one of the apartments upstairs of the bakery, to convalesce from an illness. Her aunt had led her to belive he would be an older gentleman but that was far from the truth! Patick was about her age and really handsome.
A delightful story full of mystery (yes where was Aunt Margaret.. really?) a charming cat, Mr Major (how did she-yes-she, show up behind closed doors!), gingerbread disappearing at the worst time, an annoying journalist and two people who seemed fated to meet but tried really hard to control their attraction. I could not wait to see what would happen!! Jude Knight strikes again with her lovely writing and humor!
What could be better? Well the receipe for Meg’s Gingerbread cookies of course!
What a great collection of stories perfect for the holidays! They’re heartwarming, entertaining, well written story lines and characters you’ll love. A perfect collection to curl up with next to the fire and enjoy while savoring a cup of apple cider.
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” Christmas Cookies on Main Street- Christmas on Main Street Book 6)” is a collection of Christmas Stories by Jill James…Kristy Tate…Jude Knight…E.Ayers….Carol DeVaney ….Obelia Akanke….and Ashlyn Storm. And ….as with any Christmas cookies ….you can’t just eat one ….ALL the stories in this unique collection are wonderful….as well as the various cookie recipes included….So settle down into your favorite reading chair…prop up your slippered feet…and sip your favorite hot beverage…and devour these holiday tales chased with delicious bites of cookies….for Christmas comes but once a year!! Much enjoyed and Highly Recommended. I voluntarily reviewed an Advanced Copy of this book.
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“Christmas Cookies On Main Street” is a wonderful collection of heartwarming stories filled with romance, humor in love. For me it was an excellent opportunity to read and enjoy stories from authors I haven’t previously read before and then there is Jude Knight, one of my favorites who never fails to captivate and entertain me with her stories. As an added bonus each story gifts us with a cookie recipe. I enjoy making cookies for my grandchildren and family and in the future while making cookies I’ll remember the stories I read. Thank you so much to this lovely group of authors for such delightfully heartwarming stories.
This was a nice collection of small town Christmas romances with plenty of drama, humor, and romance between the main characters.
Something for everyone.
I read Jude Knight’s Gingerbread Caper. With a wily cat for good measure.
It’s part of a novella collection with Christmas cookies.
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A great collection of Christmas romances that take place in small towns. I really enjoyed reading this book by various authors.
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The Gingerbread Caper by Jude Knight
Meg Fotheringham is looking after her Aunt Margaret’s bakery whilst her aunt is on a trip to the UK. Patrick Finch is recovering from glandular fever & has rented the holiday let above the bakery so that he can fully recover away from his work. He was expecting a much older woman & she was led to believe that the lodger would be older. Meg is run ragged with staffing problems, a journalist who’s looking for a story & a cat that causes havoc.
A well written short story that I read in a sitting. The characters are very well portrayed & have plenty of depth. The pace is good & I was intrigued to learn the reason for Aunt Margaret’s mystery trip to the UK. I loved how Meg & Patrick ‘s relationship grew, as they get to know each other over making dough & a gingerbread village
There are six other short stories that I still have to delve into as well as seven recipes to try
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Loved the book, the story was well written and the characters were intriguing. Once I started I could not get enough, from the start till the end I was engrossed I was even on the edge of my seat with twists and turns, lust and passion, strength happiness and funny. The story of sensational feelings that can run through the body while reading. Do yourself a favor and buy the book you want be disappointed.
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This anthology is seven wonderful and charming stories, all of them heart-warming to ready, with good characters and a holiday theme. I love that there is a cookie recipe to accompany each story. My favorite story is Christmas Coins by Kristy Tate. She is a new-to-me author, one that I’ll look for in the future. Zoe is a baker owner and hard worker who sometimes forgets to stop and have fun. She spends a good part of her time helping to raise her niece, Laurel. Ethan is a widower and dad to Hannah, an artist who’s currently teaching at a private school until he can afford to purchase or open a gallery and do his art full time. Zoe likes Ethan, and he likes that she likes him for him and not just for who he is as an artist. Zoe has a box of gold coins, each coin with a story when it was added to the box. And then the box and coins go missing. Zoe and Ethan hit a snag in their relationship, and all I can say is that I love meddling mommas for knocking sense into their adult children when they’re busy being obtuse. This is such a sweet story, and I loved seeing Zoe and Ethan’s journey to their happy ending.
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I’m not sure which are sweeter, the stories or the cookie recipes that accompany them. Each story captured my heart. And I can’t wait to try out each of the recipes that are in this amazing holiday collection. All of the authors that contributed to this box set were new to me, but very skilled in their craft. I look forward to reading more from each.
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Book six in the Christmas on Main Street series a well written set of Christmas stories, Some Authors I have read before and a couple are new to me,seven great stories in all. Once I finished reading the ARC copy I bought my own copy.
The authors who contributed to this wonderful collection have teamed up to provide us with seven sweet stories for the Christmas season as well as cookie recipes to go with them! This was a fantastic variety with just the right touch of humor blended with the perfect sigh of romance. The story lines were generally good and well-paced throughout. The romantic characters were presented well, realistic and likable. Their dialog was done well and left the reader with a positive feeling toward the characters.
Don’t miss this one – it is definitely worth your time and a fun addition to your reading library!
3 1/2 stars. Some good stories, some were just ok. Some were just to drawn out. Good cookie recipes at the end of each story
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It’s a nice idea when a multi-author anthology contains stories with a common element. Here the element is baking cookies. Well, that quickly got a bit old.
There is a cookie recipe (or two) after each story. As I don’t care to bake, I did not read the recipes. The only author I was familiar with was Jude Knight and her story The Gingerbread Caper interested me the most (4*).
I regret to say the stories of the other authors did not inspire me to read more of their work. The writing of some stories was quite choppy, more like a list of what the characters were doing.
The first by Kristy Tate was not bad, but was too “churchy” for my taste. “Traveling Cinnamon Button Cookies” started off nicely as a family legacy sort of story, but it dragged on and on; then I found the heroine Maggie just too stupid and I stopped reading. Holiday Paws by E. Ayers brought me to skim quite a bit; there was often too much extraneous information that I felt was just page filler. The others I could not finish due to the writing style.
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