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The Unshatterables
The Unshatterables is a collection of short stories following families, relationships, and those grieving after death. With a diverse series of love stories-young love, widowed love, LGBTQ+ love, parent-child relationships, friendships, and siblings-The Unshatterables unpacks trauma, hope, and healing. Miranda Faye Dillon spotlights the many pitfalls of life-loss, heartbreak, and pain-and highlights the many grand moments-love, growth, and recovery.
180 pages, Paperback
Published May 9, 2024
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March 11, 2025
The Unshatterables is a collection of short stories that tackle grief, love, loss and friendship. Most of the stories had alternate endings and realities too. I think I enjoyed about half of the stories and found the other half boring but it was an interesting read.
Thank you to Koehler Books and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review
Thank you to Koehler Books and Netgalley for the arc in exchange for an honest review
April 13, 2025
3.5/5
Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with a copy of this book.
If I can trace a single characteristic for these short stories that compose "The Unshatterables" that would be the sense of empathy. Yeah, the ability to understand and share another person's feelings as ours, biding strangers and building up possibilities for a better world. Some of these stories happen by using alternative options to evolve them, like "what if" stories. That is the case in "Three love stories" and some others. They may work nicely if you like "what if" stories. I am not much into them, but I admit I enjoyed reading some of the parts.
The one I mostly enjoyed reading was the first story, "Lipstick", I felt emotional most of the time, and though it sounded a bit unreal at times, at other moments it was the one exuding empathy. I could easily see it become a beautiful novella.
Thank you, NetGalley, for providing me with a copy of this book.
If I can trace a single characteristic for these short stories that compose "The Unshatterables" that would be the sense of empathy. Yeah, the ability to understand and share another person's feelings as ours, biding strangers and building up possibilities for a better world. Some of these stories happen by using alternative options to evolve them, like "what if" stories. That is the case in "Three love stories" and some others. They may work nicely if you like "what if" stories. I am not much into them, but I admit I enjoyed reading some of the parts.
The one I mostly enjoyed reading was the first story, "Lipstick", I felt emotional most of the time, and though it sounded a bit unreal at times, at other moments it was the one exuding empathy. I could easily see it become a beautiful novella.
February 29, 2024
I really enjoyed all the different takes on love in this book, the themes or scenes not story-book but true, real. Sometimes, we don't get a happy ending. And sometimes we have to make it. And sometimes we can't. There were so many moments Dillon put into words that I've felt, things I could never have put into words but she got exactly right. And lots that made me laugh or chuckle. Overall a really fun read!
January 19, 2025
Love the short story format. Really appreciate all the representation for different types of love and relationships - in family, friends, romance… overall, a very honest depiction of human emotion, life’s trials and tribulations, and resilience.
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