Smitten by:Colleen Coble
Kristen Billerbeck
Diann Hunt
and Denise Hunter
"Smitten" by Colleen Coble, Kristen Billerbeck, Diann hunt and denise Hunter is the story of four friends finding love and saving their small hometown of Smitten, Vermont. It was really cool getting to read four different stories all about the same people in the same setting. The characters are introduced as friends, so you get to know them before you read their story. By the time you get to their part of the book, you can guess what they will do.
Since the book is basically four conjoined novellas, I felt that sometimes the back story was crammed in. The story would be progressing normally and suddenly a condensed paragraph about a characters past would be thrown in with too much or too little information. Also, sometimes the issues they were dealing with didn't seem to affect them as much as they should have, and some seemed to be solved overnight.
But I relly did like them a lot. Seeing four different authors work together with their differences and still managing to fit it all together really well was cool. Plus I think because they knew each other's characters so well, you were able to better understand the characters.
Colleen Coble did a great job of not writing one of her normal, "thriller books". You got to see one of her characters not being stalked or afraid of being killed, just happy in life.
Kristin Billerbeck really captured her character Julia's emotions as an uptight, confident-yet-afraid person. Plus she is really funny.
Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter both have lighter, more sentimental writing styles, but just as compelling.
All together the stories come form one very cute, sweet story. The characters are fully known by the end of the book throgh their friendships, dreams and love.
