A Vacation on the Island of Ex-Boyfriends

from verka6811

LuxuryReading.com Review - I picked this book based on the title 'A Vacation on the Island of Ex-boyfriends' thinking it would be a humorous novel of someone's ridiculous dating past experiences. I was surprised to find instead this book is a compilation of short stories, only one having to do wi...

from shearon

This is a collection of fourteen short stories, most of them about women and their romantic and/or sexual relationships, although several also address themes of grief, sadness and loneliness. As I was reading them, I enjoyed most of the stories, but with few exceptions, neither the stories nor th...

from erinclark

I must admit Stacy Bierlin is a wonderful writer, unfortunately for me she doesn't write about anything I care about. This collection of short stories revolves around women and love in a most unromantic way. Most of the characters came off as shallow, spoiled, over educated and selfish. I can't s...

from MissReadsTooMuch

Stacy Bierlein is a great writer - she displays amazing skill at flushing out complete characters and life moments plots in every short story. There is a huge array of characters and locations in this book and she deals with all so well. Should I see another book by her, I will definitely pick it...

from amhamilt

Let me preface this review by saying that I don't know the first thing about reviewing short stories. I don't normally read short stories, so the format threw me off a little. That being said...I would say this book is just 'okay.' I was never able to get invested in any of the stories before the...