My True Love Gave To Me ~ Multiple Authors (Short Stories)

On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me ...This beautiful collection features twelve gorgeously romantic stories set during the festive period, by some of the most talented and exciting YA authors writing today. The stories are filled with the magic of first love and the magic of the holidays. @goodreads

MY REVIEW:

4 STARS 

First off this book is gorgeous! I had to get the UK Edition and I love it so much!





1. Midnights ~ Rainbow Rowell ~ 5/5

I wasn't sure I would like this story as it only takes place on New Years Eve from 2011 - 2014. Mags first met Noel on New Year's Eve 2011 where she saved him an allergic reaction from not eating snacks with nuts in them. And they became best friends. But every New's Years Eve from there on she wants to be the one to kiss Noel but he's always kissing another girl.... until 2014 - her dream finally came true. There are more revelations and I'm not going to say what led up to anything, but this story was so good. I just loved it. I loved both of the characters and their chemistry together! And this wasn't even a long story as opposed to some of the other ones.



2. The Lady and the Fox ~ Kelly Link ~ 3/5



This story was a bit bizarre but I still give it three stars. Every year for a bit of time when it snows, Miranda meets this boy named Fenny in the gardens. He only has until the snow stops falling to be with her. He is apparently trapped by some snow witch or something. And no, they don't really explain why he is trapped. Needless to say Miranda saves him and I guess they have a happily ever after.
3. Angels In The Snow ~ Matte de la pena ~ 5/5



This is a sweet story about a boy named Shy who is watching his bosses apartment for Christmas. Well, rather he's watching the cat. But this boss didn't give him any money before he left and there is no food but maybe a few yogurts and random small things. Shy is starving but he won't try to go out and get help.

Haley is a girl in another apartment that needs to use his shower. They become friends but he doesn't tell her he's starving. I mean I wanted to smack him several times. But I digress. Haley finds out on her own that he has no food and she starts packing it on. She makes him all kinds of food and they form as sweet little romance.

4. Polaris Is Where You'll Find Me ~ Jenny Han - 4/5

This one is cute because Natty is a human that lives at the North Pole with Santa and the Elves. But when she went on a Christmas run with Santa one year she meets a little human boy. She has thought about him ever since and now that she is older she wants to find him. Especially since humans and elves can't be together and the crush she has on Flynn the elf isn't going to work out. I thought the ending was sweet and cute.

5. It's A Yuletide Miracle, Charlie Brown ~ Stephanie Perkins ~ 5/5



This is a wonderful story about Marigold and North. Marigold wants to use North's voice on her Youtube channel. She does animations and that's what she wants to do for a living with one of the big companies.

North works for his parents tree farm and he's always outside her window selling trees. She doesn't have the money to get a tree but she wants to try to get one so she can talk to him. She asks for a Charlie Brown tree, it's so sweet ♥

North ends up taking the tree to her apartment and then helps her clear a space since there is so much clutter. This ends up taking so many hours and they talk and talk. Marigold finally admits her scheme and other nice things happen. That's all I'm saying ♥

6. Your Temporary Santa ~ David Levithan ~ 2/5

7. Krampuslauf ~ Holly Black ~ 2/5

8. What The Hell Have You Done, Sophie Roth? ~ Gayle Forman ~ 2/5

9. Beer Buckets and Baby Jesus ~ Myra McEntire ~ 3/5

This one was okay. You have Vaughn who is the town prankster.

I was the guy who taught other kids how to egg houses, roll yards, and glue mailboxes shut. And the older I got, the more elaborate my pranks became. In middle school, I filled the clinic with Styrofoam peanuts. Last year, my junior year of high school, I decorated the town Christmas tree with neon thong underwear.

But one of his little pranks turns bad and he ends up catching the Church on fire. So he's in trouble for all of that and helping to fix it back up and work on the pageant. He starts talking to Gracie Robinson and they seem to click and she finds out he's not such a bad guy after all.

10. Welcome To Christmas, Ca ~ Kiersten White ~ 5/5

Maria lives in this small town and works at the diner for her mother and her mother's boyfriend Rick. Maria hates it and wants to get out of town as soon as she can. She's not sure how since she can't afford college and she can't afford much of anything else.

Then when they replace the old cook that passed with the new cook Ben... things become sort of magical. Ben has a way of know what to feed people no matter what they order and it's awesome. They find a little magic together as well and the ending is sweet with Maria's dreams coming true. Even dreams she didn't know she had.
11. Star of Bethlehem ~ Ally Carter ~ 2/5

12. The Girl Who Woke The Dreamer ~ Laini Taylor ~ 2/5



Overall I enjoyed the book and some really sweet stories!

GOODREADS REVIEW:

 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1467309506

AMAZON LINK TO THE BOOK: 

http://www.amazon.com/My-True-Love-Gave-Me/dp/1250059305?ie=UTF8&keywords=my%20true%20love%20gave%20to%20me&qid=1464702309&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1

I actually got this UK edition through Abe Books because Book Depository didn't have it. Unfortunately it was supposed to be new but I could clearly see it was used but I still loved it. Just no more buying from Abe books for me.