A review by melodyseestrees
Bearded Women: Stories by Teresa Milbrodt

3.0

This book was not what I thought it would be. It wasn't bad but it wasn't phenomenal either. You're presented with several short stories focusing on varied individuals and a small portion of their lives or the people around them. The reason this book is only 3 stars to me is that there is little reason to care about any of these stories. They're the "average joes" with some "weird" stapled on. I feel all of the stories could've benefited from several paragraphs to several pages more. There would've been time to develop a reason to care about these characters that are relatively unremarkable. "The three legged man" didn't even get a name in his story, despite the main emphasis being that he was a normal sight for the people in the town.

In essence the book is as unremarkable as the characters in it, which could very well be the point. It wasn't good, it wasn't bad. It was just it. Some people may find it boring as there is more 'telling' than 'showing' in some of the stories.