A review by jlholowaty
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction by Elissa Schappell

2.0

Not as good as I had hoped. I'm not usually a big fan of short story collections; however, I did enjoy how the characters were interconnected throughout the stories. Overall, the stories were rather dark. But I was interested and intrigued enough to continue reading. The last story"I'm Only Going to Tell You This Once" was my favorite. Very interesting to hear a mother tell her son a not-so-great story about herself as a young adult (of course, she told it as if it were a "friend"). Overall, not sure I'd recommend.