Serendipity: Ten Love Stories to make you swoon!

Dies ist, wie es im Titel des Buches schon steht, eine großartige Kollektion von Geschichten - Kurzgeschichten (max. 20 bis 30 Seiten) -, die allesamt erzählen, wie es ist, sich zu verlieben. Und das in allen Farben und Formen! Denn es gibt hier sowohl viel Stoff an LGBTQ+ Charakteren als auch einige plus-size und PoC Charaktere, aber natürlich auch ein paar straigte, weiße Figuren. Insgesamt also eine sehr bunte und schöne Mischung aus High School bis Collage Teenie Liebesgeschichten, die sich für mich perfekt im Sommerurlaub am Strand lesen ließen. Perfekt zum Dahinschmelzen und Wegträumen in eine leichtere, nostalgischere Welt.

Die Storys waren alle toll. Punktabzug nur, weil sich die meisten ziemlich im Inhalt ähneln, obwohl es alle verschiedene Tropes sein sollen. Würde daher nicht das ganze Buch auf einmal lesen sonder immer ab und zu eine Story.

Average Rating - 3.5 Stars Bye, Bye Piper Berry Review - (The Fake Relationship) I really enjoyed this short story, I found it interesting and engaging. I liked how the perspective changed between the two love interests, as it meant you got both perspectives on the fake dating situation, I think though I would have preferred it if it was half the story one and the other half the other because it did jump around a lot. The romance trope this story was based off was fake dating and I really enjoyed it, it's not always a trope I loved but I liked it here. Definitely want to try more of this author, and see what their novels are like. 4/5 Anyone Else But You Review - (Stranded Together) I loved Leah Johnson's previous book You Should See Me In a Crown but this story just didn't hit the same for me, and to be fair I don't know why other than possibly the trope. This trope is one that I like in very specific situations, I like Force Proximity when it takes place while the characters are doing something like a job and over a longer period of time not so much when they are trapped somewhere together for a period of time, like in here when they were stuck in a shop overnight. 3/5 The Idiom Algorithm - (Class Warfare) I'm not sure on this story. I think I enjoyed it more than yesterday's but it was nothing special, and I'm also not sure what the trope was. This story for me was just enjoyable it wasn't a trope I have any specific feelings towards and it wasn't anything special. I'm also not really sure if I want to read more of this author. I did like Winter as a character though. 3/5 Auld Acquaintance - (The Best Friend Love Epiphany) For some reason I really didn't enjoy this story and I'm not sure why. The trope was one that enjoy on a semi-regular basis, bit I didn't enjoy it here. I don't think there was really anything about that I did enjoy, I just found it weird and not in a good way. 2.5/5 Shooting Stars - (One Bed) This was Marissa Meyer's story and I loved it. I was hoping I would seeing as I've enjoyed her books so much recently and I wasn't disappointed. I think this may be my favourite so far. I really loved Misty as a character and the romance was believable and interesting. This is a trope I have barely read but want to read more of. The setting was really interesting as well. I think that if this was a full length romance/contemporary novel then I could give it 5 stars. 4.5/5 Keagan's Heaven on Earth - (The Secret Admirer) I was looking forward to this story as it's a short story but done like a graphic novel as I've been getting into graphic novels more recently but it wasn't really anything special and if anything I found it a bit boring. There was nothing that pulled me towards the characters and the only thing that I really liked and that stood out to me was the fact that the main character writes fanfiction simply because I do too. 3/5 Zora in the Spotlight - (The Grand Romantic Gesture) I don't know what I think about this one. I quite liked the first half but once Astrid started dancing I lost interest. I liked Zora as a character and understood how she felt but she was probably the one character I felt that way towards. Overall it was just meh. I also really didn't like the love interest. 3/5 In A Blink of the Eye - (Trapped in a Confined Space) I liked this story and found it interesting, I think part of it was because it was set in the UK instead of the US and I am more familiar with the UK. I liked the main character and found her easy enough to get on with, she's not my favourite character but I liked her. This was another one I'd like to read as a full length book. Probably my second favourite story so far. 4.25/5 Liberty - (The Makeover) I liked this. Do I know why I liked it so much? No, but I did. I liked the Protagonist, she was interesting and I understood her. I like the love interest and what she showed and represented. I like the message it had of being yourself and not caring about what others think. I liked all of it. There was nothing that stood out as fantastic for me but I enjoyed it all and want to read more. 4/5 The Surprise Match - (The Matchmaker) I really enjoyed this. There were parts I really loved - the key one being when Six of Crows was mentioned. And I found the concept really interesting, it was enjoyable to read about. There was a scene I found super cringy but that was to be expected and it didn't really effect my enjoyment levels. I quite liked the main characters too, I think my favourite was Charlotte (I think her name was) 4/5