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perpetually_reading's review against another edition
4.0
I’m a HUGE fan of short story collections, and this one by Bray is another new favorite. Weird to say, but I loved how sad and bleak Bray made these stories. I love it when authors write stories in a way where I can feel how the characters feel and can identify with their needs and desires in a way where I can’t in my real life. I’d recommend this book to people who:
perpetuallyreading's review against another edition
4.0
I’m a HUGE fan of short story collections, and this one by Bray is another new favorite. Weird to say, but I loved how sad and bleak Bray made these stories. I love it when authors write stories in a way where I can feel how the characters feel and can identify with their needs and desires in a way where I can’t in my real life. I’d recommend this book to people who:
crystal6's review against another edition
4.0
A wonderful range of short stories covering ever emotion. My favourite story is Wooden Mum deal with a child that has autism.
bethc217's review against another edition
5.0
I absolutely loved Sweet Home by Carys Bray.
Dealing with the everyday tragedy, beauty, pain and joy of everyday people, their families and their lives; all the stories within this short story collection are absolutely stunning.
As soon as I finished reading this book, I instantly had a craving to devour it all over again (and no doubt will again in the near future!).
Carys Bray is an amazing writing and I can't wait to pick up another one of her books.
Dealing with the everyday tragedy, beauty, pain and joy of everyday people, their families and their lives; all the stories within this short story collection are absolutely stunning.
As soon as I finished reading this book, I instantly had a craving to devour it all over again (and no doubt will again in the near future!).
Carys Bray is an amazing writing and I can't wait to pick up another one of her books.
debumere's review against another edition
4.0
Strange short stories, very short. I can't say I had a favourite, 'favourite' is the wrong word to use for these stories. It's too happy.
I thought they were very well written considering how short each one was. They tended to end abruptly too but didn't make me feel like I was left hanging. I did feel a bit 'eh?' sometimes as I hadn't expected it to end so soon.
Each had the potential for a full on novel, fully loaded, though, if Carys wanted to she could write individual books.
Worth a read.
I thought they were very well written considering how short each one was. They tended to end abruptly too but didn't make me feel like I was left hanging. I did feel a bit 'eh?' sometimes as I hadn't expected it to end so soon.
Each had the potential for a full on novel, fully loaded, though, if Carys wanted to she could write individual books.
Worth a read.
ahayes's review against another edition
2.0
Out of all the stories in this book I only enjoyed 4. I was hoping for so much more from this. I knew going in that the stories were tragic and not all happily ever after, home sweet home-ish, but I had hoped more would be this way. I'm glad I read the ones I liked, but I won't be keeping this book.
ijustkindalikebooks's review against another edition
5.0
The fact that 'Ice Baby' isn't longer is deeply frustrating.
chauceye's review against another edition
4.0
I really enjoyed this collection of short stories. They were all a little twisted and odd, but well written.
sim97's review against another edition
2.0
2.5 Any short story collection has the potential to be hit or miss. I found that I liked a lot of the concepts but the writing style wasn’t always for me.