A New Fetish - Novellas!

I've recently gotten into the mini-novella stories that are compiled into a larger novel. The one I finished last night was called A Match Made in Texas: A Novella Collection with four different stories of love in 1880s Dry Gulch, Texas. Writers Connealy, Witemeyer, Cox, and Jennings worked together to create a small western town with one meddling matchmaker and four unique situations.

DISCLAIMER - There is a spoiler in my musings today, so if you don't want to know the unknown meddler's identity, quit reading now!

The book I read had all four in one - 

But they are also available in eBook form for Kindle, iPad, nooks, etc. Each of those individual titles are shown below.

While I loved them all, last night's novella was very interesting. Meeting Her Match revealed the secret matchmaker that brought the other three stories together. In my own opinion, Hannah Taylor, the local school teacher, meddled in the affairs of her unmarried friends because she turned a blind eye to her own un-happily-ever-after story; and for the same reasons I read, I believe Hannah meddled in other's lives so that she wouldn't have to think about her own. 

In the end, however, her friends from the previous stories "retaliate" in kind by expediting her own wedding day through some cunning shenanigans that worked in that culture but possibly not in ours. (However, that doesn't make that scene any less my favorite! ;)

So, read them together or alone, you choose. But now, I'm on a novella kick with my next one ready by my bed. It's a little out of season, but it was 1/2 off at my local bookstore yesterday and there's no way I'm going to wait 12 months! 

Happy reading My Corner Shelvers!