A review by tspangler1970
Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction by Elissa Schappell

2.0

I took a break from the novels I'm reading for some short stories. This was a quick read, which is what I wanted, but I really didn't enjoy it much. The girls and women who were the protagonists of the stories were just so unlikable. Disliking characters doesn't always ruin a book for me, but here it really did. I just found them annoying and extreme and sometimes despicable. I just read Lorrie Moore's new collection, and some of those characters are not so likable either, but she is able to pull it off. This collection just depressed and irked me.