I hate to say this about a Patricia Briggs book, because she writes some of my favorites, but quite frankly, I was bored. 
 Not just, this one story was boring out of the bunch, but I honestly put the book down and wandered off several times. 
 The problem is, that I am a huge fan of Mercy and Adam and some of the other characters from the Mercyverse, but I am not really interesting in reading about random characters that I don't know, in a short story format, just because they exist in the same world (blasphemy, I know). 
 Onto the stories: 
 Silver - I did actually enjoy this one to an extent. Silver is not meant to be action-packed, it is meant to show you how Bran and Samuel became werewolves and give you a bit about Sam and Ariana's history. Because I do love these characters, I was interested in the story, but I have to agree with the other reviewer who said that the Ariana and Sam portion didn't really make that much sense. When we first met Ariana she seemed terrified of Sam and his wolf side, in this story however, she knew he was a wolf the whole time (even that he has bitten her) and was fine until his wolf brought out her beast. But either way, that doesn't explain her fear later on . . . 
 I think part of the problem was also that the short story was trying to do too much, it was trying to show Bran and Samuel's origin while also explaining Ariana and Samuel's love affair. I think it either needed to be longer so we could actually get some more detail to make the story interesting, or the focus should have been on one of the two overall plots. 
 Fairy Gifts - For most of this story, I was bored, the way it was reading at first, I felt like I should know who Thomas is so that I can care about his history and blah blah blah, but I don't know who is he is, and I was struggling to care. Plus the story dragged, it has a lot of background for very little action. Then, just as I was beginning to care about what would happen to Maggie . . . the story ended. I don't get it, what was the point here? 
 Gray - Again, why do I care about this person? At least thing story got interesting as it went on and it came to a less abrupt end. 
 Seeing Eye - Yay, finally characters I know! It was a cute story as to how these two met, it wasn't really much more than that and really failed to add anything or bring out any strong emotions. I'm going to have to get used to these two though since they are apparently getting their own book at some point. 
 Alpha and Omega - Already read this one a while ago since I do keep with the A&O series too. This is what a Patricia Briggs short story should be, characters that you want to know more about from page 1 all the way to the end and a real ending! These abrupt endings were starting to get to me. 
 The Star of David - I have a soft spot for David Christiansen, so I really did enjoy this story. Briggs really knows how to tug on the heart-strings sometimes and David's story is the perfect Christmas tale. The ending was, again, especially great. 
 Roses in the Winter - I am also quite fond of Asil, so I was happy to read about him and how he isn't quite as far gone as he thinks he is. The story was not particularly interesting, but the topic was small enough to be perfect for the short story format, any longer and it would have been too drawn out. Kara is a cute addition to the pack and I hope to see more of these characters soon. 
 In Red, with Pearls - Warren's story, I love Warren so I really wanted to love this. It was okay, but the story was kind of flat to me, plus they tried to pack a lot into very few pages and that just didn't work, had this been longer and we had some actual detail it may have been better. Instead this followed the HGTV format: here's the issue, here are three options, oh look, the couple decided to go with unspoken option 4. 
 Redemption - This story I really did love, Ben is a fun character to play with because he is so gruff and is a bit broken, it was so cute to see him unwittingly protecting someone he claimed to hate. Plus, this story felt like a full story and we got to see characters actually grow and change. 
 Hollow - For a Mercy story, this was surprisingly boring, there was so much backstory that had to be established to allow readers to understand the story that the fun part of Mercy's stories - Mercy - didn't really have time to shine. Plus, Adam was completely wasted in this story, it would have been better to just not include him instead of just having him show up to drive Mercy home. 
 Deleted Scenes - I'm not surprised these scenes were cut, but the one between Samuel and Ariana was cute in light of Silver. The other one could have been great if it was longer, but as the author said, had it been long enough to be a chapter it may have made it into the book. 
 Overall, if you read the series this is okay, it gets much better towards the second half. That being said, I don't feel the need to have it as part of my Mercy collection, the only draw is that the cover is great.