Love in Transit on 1 June 2017 Pages: 430
Find out what happens when you give six authors the SAME blurb and they write their OWN story.
The blurb:You know those people that have a house full of motivational slogans? Embrace Every Moment, stamped on their coffee mugs. Always Kiss Me Goodnight painted above their perfectly made beds.
I’m not one of those people.
This morning I overslept, then slipped on a stray sock and banged my toe into the nightstand. The elevator in my building broke and I had to run down six flights of stairs. And then my local coffee shop was closed. For health code violations.
What’s that? Not the end of the world? You want me to suck it up?
Did I mention I’m wearing a wedding dress… on the subway?
It’s a Good Day for a Hot Mess.
Someone embroider that on a pillow.
There are six quite long novellas included in Love in Transit, and apart from the same blurb, the stories are very different.
Stories:
I really enjoyed most of the stories, and I found it funny that they were so different – it is really proof that a summary doesn’t really mean much. Love in Transit is not only six different stories, they are also written by six different authors.
I found the stories to be enticing, with good character development and some of them were also very funny. I have to admit that Time Square by Jana Aston was my favorite. She has a way to blend romance and comedy to perfection, and I laughed out loud more than once.
Seeing how the different authors came up with a unique take on the summary was as much fun as reading each novella, and some of the stories were extremely hot.
This anthology is no longer for sale, but it is possible to buy the individual stories now, and if you’re a fan of romance, with different twists in each story, Love in Transit should make it to your shelves, even if you have to go about it differently now.
It’s the only city in the world where you can buy a cupcake from a vending machine, get Pad Thai delivered at three AM and do your laundry in a twenty-four-hour laundromat with organic detergent and free wifi.
I’m sort of curious about the sex offer. Like I wonder what he wanted and how much he was willing to pay. Not that I would have! Of course not. But it’d be nice to know how much I could fetch in a jam. Just saying.
My book club meets at this really cool hybrid shop on Seventh. Thy sell wine and books – a Manhattan bookworm’s dream. There’s an area towards the back reserved for book club meetings.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
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Linda is an English as foreign language teacher and has a Master's degree in English Language and Literature. She's an avid reader, blogger, compulsive one-clicker and a genre omnivore. Ever since she learnt how to read she has been seen with a book or two in her hands everywhere she goes.
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That blurb is outrageous! What a “novel” idea and this sounds like fun. Thanks for highlighting these stories.
It really was a lot of fun, Jonetta. Sorry it’s taken me months to get back to you – I was searching for something and just realised I hadn’t replied here…
Oh my, this sounds so unique. I love the concept of different authors creating different stories from the same blurb. Too bad the full anthology isn’t available anymore but at least the individual stories are so that’s something. 🙂
It was so much fun, Stephanie. And I really enjoyed that the stories were so different.
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I’m only familiar wit RMiller in the lineup so this is a cool sampler so to speak. I also didn’t know that some anthologies are limited edition, that’s a great marketing plot IMO.
Ha! It is a great marketing plot. I am not sure, but I think they wrote this for RARE Berlin in June. And I got the copy to have it signed by the authors while I was there.
Like Stephanie, I love the concept behind this as well, too bad the anthology is not available anymore! 🙁 Will still have to check the stories, though, perhaps I should get them altogether so I can read them one after another to re-create the anthology atmosphere 🙂
Yeah, but for certain events, it’s possible to still get it, Silvia. Who knows 🙂
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a bride standing in front of a train going to book club meetings? Wow, I am sad now that the book is no longer available.
LOL it was pretty outrageous in some of the novellas, but it was so very funny!
I’ve never read an anthology before. This makes me curious. Ahh too bad we can’t buy them all in a package. Anyway, thank you for putting this on my radar. Awesome review! ?❤️??
I’m not usually a big fan of anthologies, Geybie, but I found the premise behind this one to be so intriguing, and I enjoyed most of the stories.
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I’ve found that anthologies can go either way. I’ve had some that I loved and found new authors. I’ve had others that were just okay and I really only liked the stories of the authors I already knew. Great review.
I agree, Melanie. Sometimes they work, and sometimes they just don’t.
I don’t think I’ll be reading this one just because you can’t get it as an anthology anymore, but it’s pretty cool that they all had the same synopsis and all the stories came out so differently!
It’s sad, I know – but are you going to RARE in London? In February next year? I think it might be possible to get a copy there 😉
I looked at going there but the tickets were a bit too pricey for my student self 🙁
That’s too bad, Olivia 🙁 I’m going with my daughter. It would have been fun to hang out!
How long are you staying? I could make a trip to London and if you have any free time around the event I could maybe catch you.
Ohhh… Only from Friday evening until Sunday afternoon 🙁