{Review} LOVE UNEXPECTED by Anne Glynn

ASIN #: B00BTJQIMU

File Size: 487 KB

Page Count: 306

Copyright: March 12, 2013

Publisher: Blackpool Press

Book Summary:

(Taken from Amazon)

Love Unexpected offers six very different novellas. There is a story set in 1870, about a mail order bride, and another about the Zombie Apocalypse, set sometime in the near future. There are stories about a Hollywood producer and her Southern sheriff, about Area 69, and one about love’s instruction book, Sun Zu’s The Art of Whore. Love Unexpected even provides the startling tale of a woman’s obsession with her teeth and the sexy men who clean them.

Because romance is supposed to be fun!

Mandy's Review:

This is the "nicely wicked but not explicit version," to quote the author. The "somewhat kinkier assortment" is published under the title Love Unexpected: Nighttime Tales. There are six novellas in each book of which I'll give my brief opinion about:

One Bride for Seven Brothers

Area 69

Sun Zu's Art of Whore

To Protect and Service

World War Me: Love in the Time of the Zompocalypse

Carole's Christmas

One Bride for Seven Brothers was a little longer than what I thought it should be. Don't get me wrong, I liked it. I just wished it was a tad bit shorter. The girl was a tad bit naive, but that's how most young girls were back then I suppose. I just know I would've found something fishy and suspicious before she did.

Area 69 was a bit odd, but I suppose it would be when dealing with a secret government mission. I think the gardener was used to throw the reader off. I'm curious how the story could've ended had the gardener been omitted. The heat of the book definitely picked up with this novella. No, it's not smutty or explicit, but it does start one's juices flowing ... or maybe I'm just into weird stuff. *wink wink*

If Area 69 picked up the heat of the book, then Sun Zu's Art of Whore doubled or tripled that. Still not explicit, but one's imagination can run wild with this novella. I may be using some of this story in my own life. The hubs won't know what hit him. Definitely a fun and playful read.

I was a little let down with To Protect and Service. Reading this type of book, when you see a title like "To Protect and Service," your mind just automatically goes to certain sexual acts. This story was more sweet than savory. I would've liked it to have had more oomph.

Zombies are everywhere and this book has not been left out. World War Me: Love in the Time of the Zompocalypse definitely has a twist. The zombies are used as more of a back story. It was the zombie cure that cause the real hoopla. Someone please create and send me a bottle of this! I could have some real fun with this stuff!!!

The final novella, Carole's Christmas: The Dental Version, annoyed me. In order to keep this story clean for this book, the authors changed all of the smutty words and phrases to dental versions. I would rather have read the smutty version.

Overall, I did enjoy this book, but I think I would've enjoyed the Nighttime Tales version more. What can I say? I'm a naughty girl.


*An ecopy of this book was provided by the author in exchange for an honest review.