Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories

I have never been a fan of short stories or short story collections, I tend to want to get behind characters and stay with them for the long haul, I've never really loved the short snappy stories where you are just getting used to all the different people when it suddenly is at an end. I'd heard really good things though about Summer Days and Summer Nights, a collection of 12 Love Stories by some of today's best Young Adult authors and all themed around Summer that I felt I had to give it a try.

This book contains stories by such well known authors as Libba Bray, Cassandra Clare, Leigh Bardugo and Jennifer E. Smith. Some of these authors I've read books by recently and other's I have plans to delve into their books in the very near future and so I felt that the calibre of writing was high enough that we could anticipate some great stories along the way.

All of the stories are generally in a contemporary setting but some have a more paranormal or fantastical setting to them than others. Some are very much just a contemporary short love story with the theme of summer central to them whereas others are more clever in their twist on the theme of love. Along the way we meet some great characters and as I sit here reflecting back on this book, as I finished it just over a week ago, I find them coming back to me piece by piece and I'm smiling fondly as I remember the stories.

I don't think I'm a convert to the short story genre, I still find them harder to invest in but what I did enjoy was the ability to read lots of different themes and characters over the period of a few days and to keep feeling I was trying something new each time I started a new story.

I gave this 3 stars but I think fans of the short story may find it deserves more than that but for me it was a little bit of a filler between two books to give me something different but I'm not sure if in a year I'll remember any of the stories specifically.