A review by zoer03
The Story: Love, Loss & The Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories by Victoria Hislop

2.0

I am not sure about this collection.... at first I thought wow this will be great there will be a mix of stories that will explore love in all its meanings.... but as soon as I started the first short story.... (groans) I knew this would disappoint me. All of the stories do not , to me, either make me cry weep or laugh. What they do is make me bloody angry some of them and this a rare few are not too bad (which in itself I guess makes it worse) it essentially shows love to be either torrid awful or even greedy or hateful none of them show the slow burning love or the tenderness of love or the tragic love.... it’s either cruel, angry or even selfish and spiteful and just hateful. So for the love of god Victoria Hislop change the title maybe to women who most like write bitter twisted hateful and shitty love stories. Oh and some of them come across as pretentious and horrible I hope that means they either haven’t gone through that or did it themselves.