Rating: 5🌈
If you’re a fan of Lily Morton, especially her Mixed Messages and Finding Home series, this is must reading.
These short stories follow those couples at various stages of their lives and relationships, from the stage after the wedding is over to a marriage proposal we always hoped to read about.
None of these scenes appeared in those stories, cut for various reasons or written for her fans later on. They are now gathered together by couple, and it makes for some very amazing and very rewarding stories.
For myself, it changed my thoughts on a couple and story. That would be Rule Breaker, Dylan and Gabe’s story. Told primarily from Dylan’s pov, It was the romance and relationship I least connected with. The reason was the character of Gabe. For me, without his perspective, he came across as selfish, cold, and his actions often cruel, especially towards Dylan. Who repeatedly took him back.
That missing pov is here. Gabe, his emotional state, and his background, everything that would have made him an emotionally accessible character is here in scenes that never made it into that story. To its detriment, in my opinion. Because after reading this, I look at that novel totally differently.
For the rest of the couples and books? Short Stack just enriches our involvement with them and their relationships. Where we always wanted to know what happened next? This is our answer to that question, and it gives us a often realistic, and emotional satisfying one.
Not read one of the stories? This might make you hold off, stop at a couple. Go get their book. Read it. Then come back for their shorts.
Win on every level.
I got this for my Kindle but I just might need it in a copy for my bookshelf.
I’m recommending it that hard for lovers of these series, this author, and those readers to come.
Short Stack by Lily Morton – Goodreads
Synopsis:
What happens after the happy ending?
Drawn together for the first time, this is a collection of Lily’s short stories about the much-loved men from her Mixed Messages and Finding Home series. Follow them through awkward marriage proposals, birthdays, a fraught babysitting job, and a very drunken Eurovision Song Contest party.
It includes stories previously written for her website and readers’ group, along with deleted scenes and four brand new and exclusive short stories – Bad Valentine, Marrying Jude, Babysitting Billy, and House Hunting.
Mixed Messages:
Rule Breaker #1
Deal Maker #2
Risk Taker#3
Finding Home:
Oz #1
Milo #2
Gideon #3
Scattered Thoughts and Rogue Words 