Some of these stories fell flat for me, and some had too much insta-love (though that’s the go-to for romance short stories), but overall I loved the Latinx characters and storylines, and they were all improvements on the ones in Love Actually—the most delightful part of reading this was recognizing which aspects of the movie the authors were riffing on. There’s plenty of chemistry and steam packed into the pages, which I also appreciated (though sometimes it felt like those scenes existed for the sake of, well, existing). Plus, I now have some new romance authors to check out in the coming year!