My True Love Gave To Me

My True Love Gave To Me edited by Stephanie Perkins, 321 pages

This is a collection of twelve holiday stories by young adult authors.  Not all of the stories are about Christmas.  A couple are about Hanukkah and at least one is about New Year’s Eve, but all center around the winter holidays.  There is a story about a boy who dresses up like Santa Claus to help convince his boyfriend’s younger sister that Santa is real and a story about a girl who thinks she’s looking for a voice to use in her film and ends up with a Christmas tree and the chance to regain her home and family.  There are a couple of stories that are more like fairy tales and one that is actually kind of scary, but all of the stories end up being romances, one way or another.  I actually liked every story in this compilation, which is kind of unusual.  There is usually one or two that I don’t care for but I found something appealing in every story and really loved almost all of them.  For teens that like romance stories, this would be a great collection to give them.