Francesca Lia Block contributes her usual fare of sex, drugs, and rock-’n’-roll, while Libba Bray’s campy delight “Last Stand at the Cinegore” brings together summer crushes and demons, and Veronica Roth gives the confession of love a sci-fi spin. Jon Skovron offers up a clever and droll take on meet-cutes in “Love Is the Last Resort,” while Tim Federle takes an equally snappy and humorous tone but applies it to a breaking-up-cute, ending the tale on a note of bittersweet optimism. Twelve love stories leave behind the winter wonderland of Perkins’ last collection (My True Love Gave to Me: Twelve Holiday Stories, BCCB 11/14) for the heat-sometimes breezy, sometimes scorching-of summer, with witty banter and sweet flirtations matched pretty evenly with reflective heartache and aching desire.
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