A World of Romance

by Christopher Shields (Editor), Alan Hardy, Amber Lea Easton

The Authors’ Social Media Support Group (ASMSG) is proud to present:

A World of Romance: A Short Story Collection.

Twenty-authors, representing dozens in the Writer's Circle of ASMSG, pour their hearts, souls, and imaginations into stories of romance, affairs, relationships, and comic romance. From Sci-Fi and Fantasy Romance to a Biker's Affair, you'll find imagination, sensuality, love, heartbreak, and happily sexy stories that intrigue and possibly generate a little steam.

Genres: Anthologies, Short Stories, Romance

ebook

First published September 24, 2013

About the author

Christopher Shields lives in Northwest Arkansas with his family and three dogs. Following what he considers to be his calling, he is a professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville. He loves working with students during the day, and writing at night. Christopher also enjoys spending time with his circle of close friends, playing his sax, and indulging his life-long passion for the Arkansas Razorbacks.

Founder of the Goodreads Group: Modern Good Reads

Reviews

[Tiffanyr. · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a free read of a collection of short stories, some of my favorites were "Dreams of the Nightlife Las Vegas" by Travis Luedke, "Our Secret Fantasy" by Yelle Hughes, "Colour Me Bad" by Lucy Pireel, "Dust and Ash" by JC Eggleton, "Blue Yonder Rendevous" by CE Kilgore, and "Anonymity" by Amber Lea Easton. Those were all worthy of five stars--some are authors I hadn't read before but will definitely be checking out now. They're quick, fun, made me smile, and satisfied the romance genre lover in me. But there are a few stories that are not romance at all--there is no heat between the hero/heroine, or in some cases, not even any interaction between a hero/heroine. It confused me as to why they were in a book of romantic short stories. That being said, it is a nice FREE read. Sometimes short stories are exactly what a person needs when they're waiting for their kids at soccer practice! :)

[Surya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely disappointing read. When I picked this book, I thought this book had stories inspired from beautiful moments between couples.
But no.Read just the first story and dropped the idea of reading this book further.
This is the gist of the story:

A man and his wife who are married for long are having a dry patch in their marriage.
This man and his wife had gotten used to and bored of each other.
They hardly talk with each other and have started taking themselves and each others for granted.
Soon this man starts an affair with another woman with attractive makeup and sexy clothes.
His wife learns about this and their relationship ends.
As the story concludes, the wife has started wearing the same kind of attractive makeup and sexy clothes hoping that the husband might return or at-least someone else might.

The most disappointing part was this book had actually topped `Intense love stories beautifully written` in goodreads.
I wonder what is so intense or beautiful about this story.
But then I am someone who never really liked Twilight.
I did not even try reading the series and found the movies irritating and boring.
So maybe this is a good book that I didn't like.
Whatever... 1 star for you book.
1 star.

[Missdevora · Rating 5 out of 5]

What a delicious dream you had/wrote with Michelle...Mr. Travis Luedke.