It Happened One Night – Stephanie Laurens
The plot seemed interesting-how 4 different authors tell a story using the same storyline (former love interests rekindling their love affairs after 10 years stopping at the same inn during different seasons of the year).
The premise of this collection is interesting: give four authors the same basic plot line and see what they do with it. The Balogh story about a formerly married couple thrown together was good and the D’Alessandro story about childhood friends of different stations also was a good read. However, the Laurens story had an incredibly convoluted premise and too many disparate elements: an eccentric family, a stolen love letter, disguises, and so on. Even it, though, didn’t bother me as much as the Candice Hern story: most Regency novels have enough tension when a duke wants to marry a commoner, but this story would have us believe that a duke married a former famous courtesan *and* that she’s accepted by most of polite society.
I really enjoyed that each story ended up being very unique, different than the others even with the plan that the authors had for this Anthology (ten years apart, meeting at an Inn, and each in a different season).
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