2005-12-12 False advertising?

Assessing an anthology is always difficult since it is very rarely that anyone would like all the stories equally but my problem with this anthology isn't that. The cover says that these are stories of "romance and suspense" or it may be vice versa and I naively assumed that all the stories would therefore contain both romance and suspense. I was wrong. In a way, it didn't matter for me as I had ordered it only because I felt like reading something seasonal and I ended up quite enjoying all the stories. If I had expected them to be crackling with both romance and suspense, I would have been bitterly disappointed. They vary from sheer whimsy (with no real mystery) to fairly gritty but the only thing they have in common is a Christmas setting. If, like me, your only criterion for choosing this book was because it promised to be Christmassy, then go ahead but don't expect the combination of stories to be at all cogent.