A review by blchandler9000
Girl Trouble, by Holly Goddard Jones
4.0
This is an excellently written collection of stories. One of them may be added to my mental list of "Best Short Stories I Ever Read."
The stories here are mostly tragic or unhappy ones, tales of people trying to get over the past or plow through the present. Boys and girls come of age, adults nurse their wounds, and sometimes they catch a glimmer of healing or briefly escape in the tangles of their lives.
The real power behind the writing here is how Jones describes feelings. The emotions are raw, real, and extremely poignant. Jones created layers of feelings for her characters to experience, digest, and balance, and often I was pulled in to feel with them.
I was really impressed by this book.
The stories here are mostly tragic or unhappy ones, tales of people trying to get over the past or plow through the present. Boys and girls come of age, adults nurse their wounds, and sometimes they catch a glimmer of healing or briefly escape in the tangles of their lives.
The real power behind the writing here is how Jones describes feelings. The emotions are raw, real, and extremely poignant. Jones created layers of feelings for her characters to experience, digest, and balance, and often I was pulled in to feel with them.
I was really impressed by this book.