A Midwinter Fantasy (Strangely Beautiful, #2.5; Sylph, #2.5; The Magic Knot, #3) in SOS: Serious Overload of Series

Sep 19, 2010 Larissa rated it it was amazing

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Review of Leanna Renee Hieber's Short Story!

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I absolutely love the world that Leanna has created and ever since I read the first book in the Strangely Beautiful series I have been hoping that we would get to read about Michael and Rebecca, and have their much deserved Happily Ever After come to life.

I actually met Leanna this past weekend and she being the amazing person that she is, gave me a ga Review of Leanna Renee Hieber's Short Story!

{Previously Published on my blog: Welcome to Larissa's Bookish Life"
+ VIDEO Interview w/ Percy Parker!

I absolutely love the world that Leanna has created and ever since I read the first book in the Strangely Beautiful series I have been hoping that we would get to read about Michael and Rebecca, and have their much deserved Happily Ever After come to life.

I actually met Leanna this past weekend and she being the amazing person that she is, gave me a galley for the Midwinter Fantasy anthology where she finally gives us that long awaited HEA. I finished the story 2 minutes ago and just had to run to my laptop to get these words down.

A Christmas Carroll is a heartfelt and beautiful story that could only be better if it was longer, though I do think it’s size was perfect and Leanna did the most amazing job in sharing with us the long, winding and sometimes painful path that these two characters have taken to find each other once and for all.

Leanna masterfully takes a page from the classic Dickens’ A Christmas Carol and makes it her own in such a way that you can’t help but fall in love with it, smile and cry with the references to the classical story. Her genius approach in my opinion was accented by the fact that she did not borrow the idea covertly, but simply owned it in the story itself, with mentions of Charles Dickens’ himself and even allowing the story to not take itself too seriously by adding a much appreciated and well crafted dose of humor.

All of our favorite characters are there and we get to see how Percy and Alexi are doing, along with Josephine and Elijah. I felt like I was attending a reunion with much beloved friend I hadn’t seen in a while and couldn’t wait to catch up with.

If you enjoy Leanna’s Strangely Beautiful series this is an absolute must read, that I guarantee you will not regret getting. If you are new to the series, there are spoilers to the stories in books one and two, but I feel that those will only make you want to read those books even more! ...more

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Sep 03, 2013 Thenia rated it liked it

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The Worth of a Sylph (Sylph #2.5) - LJ McDonald (1/17/2015)

It's been a long time since I read the second book in the series and I'd forgotten many things about the world the author's created, many of which I enjoyed re-discovering.

I wasn't a big fan of how the sylphs usually treat men, and that was one of my objections in this story as well, but at least Mace learned his lesson by the end of his adventure.

Apart from that minor annoyance, the story was enjoyable, but I wasn't very invested in the ...more

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