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cimorene1558's review against another edition
4.0
A very fine and interesting collection of short stories about female (mostly) historical figures. Most of them I was familiar with, one or two not, but either way, I very much enjoyed the stories.
sophieisreadingagain's review against another edition
2.0
This is a collection of fictionalised short stories based on real life women to celebrate their achievements. Nice idea but the execution of it wasn't my favourite.
The issue is these stories are supposed to be about a well known woman/women but in most the main character, who we spend a large part of the already too short stories with, is just a fictional character who meets the woman. So it seems barely connected to the woman's actual life.
Also despite the claims that each writer was interested in the lady they wrote about some of the stories seem very dispassionate, as if they just wanted to list what that woman did within their few pages set to a slight story, some of which didnt make an awful lot of sense or have a plot, instead of pick a specific moment and expand the character to make them more relatable and easy to connect to so the reader actually wants to learn more about them.
My least favourite was actually the first, it seemed like a rush to get as much story as possible in without developing characters much and things just happened without any seen buildup, I imagine if it was longer the writer could've done much more with the story they clearly had in mind. My favourite was the Phoenix bride, which was deliberately set out around a few years, easily separated and seemed the most well rounded as a story.
The issue is these stories are supposed to be about a well known woman/women but in most the main character, who we spend a large part of the already too short stories with, is just a fictional character who meets the woman. So it seems barely connected to the woman's actual life.
Also despite the claims that each writer was interested in the lady they wrote about some of the stories seem very dispassionate, as if they just wanted to list what that woman did within their few pages set to a slight story, some of which didnt make an awful lot of sense or have a plot, instead of pick a specific moment and expand the character to make them more relatable and easy to connect to so the reader actually wants to learn more about them.
My least favourite was actually the first, it seemed like a rush to get as much story as possible in without developing characters much and things just happened without any seen buildup, I imagine if it was longer the writer could've done much more with the story they clearly had in mind. My favourite was the Phoenix bride, which was deliberately set out around a few years, easily separated and seemed the most well rounded as a story.
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