Smitten Book Club by Collen Coble, Kristin Billerbeck, Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter

Smitten Book Club is a collection of four stories written by authors Colleen Coble, Kriston Billerbeck, Diann Hunt and Denise Hunter. It is the third book in the Smitten book series. Smitten is a quaint little town in Vermont and the romance capitol of the world. The stories are about four young women in the book club. I loved the comradery of these four women. I loved how they were always there and always had an ear to listen when one of their friends had a problem. In the beginning of the book one of friends, Molly's husband has just died in the line of duty as a firefighter. Her friends organize a book sale to help defray the cost of the funeral. At the sale one of the girls finds the book "A Gentlewoman's Guide to Love and Courtship" written by Pearl Chambers who was a relative of Molly's late husband. The book gives advice to woman in the courting of men and offers clues as to a treasure that may or may not exist. Each of the four girls reads the book and gleans advice from the book. Each of the girls try to decipher clues as to where the treasure could possibly be.

My favorites were Heather's romance and Molly's romance. I had a hard time getting into the second one but it got better as the story went on. These romances follow the typical formula of a romance novel but I enjoyed it anyway. I really enjoyed the mystery of the treasure in the book and kept reading on because I wanted to know if the treasure was real.

My only gripe is that each of the stories were too short. Each of the stories would have done really well as a full length novel instead of being limited to 90 or so pages.

Thanks to Netgalley and the Thomas Nelson company for providing me an ebook of this book to read and review.