Primeiramente, agradeço a Netgalley e à autora por me permitir ler essa obra.

Uma coleção de histórias sobre família, perda e amor, e momentos especiais em todos eles. O livro é bem reflexivo, e é inegável que as histórias têm o poder de nos ensinar alguma coisa.

Gostei dessa ideia da autora e me envolvi, sorri, chorei, gritei. Gostei bastante

While I didn't love all of the stories in the collection of family, loss and love I did enjoy reading it. I did laugh, but I also cried. All in all it was a worth while read.

On the positive side, all the stories cater to the theme well. The characters and the situations feel very realistic. The author is an Italian-Australian, so there are many Italian and Australian words in the stories. (There is a glossary at the end for these words.) All the stories are written from the point of view of female characters, and each of these is an Italian. (After a point, this becomes boring.)
However, the story development didn’t work for me much. Some of them go all over the place, with there being no connection between the start and the end. While I liked the concept of most of the stories, I was really disappointed with the endings. Except for one story, every other tale ended abruptly, leaving me feeling deprived. I don’t mind open endings any time, but they need to be at the point where the reader is left enamoured and not like someone slapped them unexpectedly.

I must admit that I expected more from these stories. they are neither funny nor dramatic or tragic, just some everyday impressions.

I loved this book. I'm not always 100% sold on short stories in general, but this anthology of stories was just great.
In a few pages, the author managed to convey each character's uniqueness; their strengths and/or weaknesses and what was happening in their lives.
I was somewhat dismayed when I reached the end as I wished there were more stories to read.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publishers for allowing me to read this book.

A collection of eleven short stories about “families, loss, and love”.

This anthology should have been right up my alley. I love short stories, I love drama-based content much more than thrillers, and I loved the theme of this collection. Unfortunately, my experience was underwhelming.

On the positive side, all the stories cater to the theme well. The characters and the situations feel very realistic. The author is an Italian-Australian, so there are many Italian and Australian words in the stories. (There is a glossary at the end of the Italian and Australian words used.) All the stories are written from the point of view of female characters, and each of these is an Italian. (After a point, this becomes boring.)

However, the story development didn’t work for me much. Some of them go all over the place, with there being no connection between the start and the end. While I liked the concept of most of the stories, I was really disappointed with the endings. Except for one story, every other tale ended abruptly, leaving me feeling deprived. I don’t mind open endings any time, but they need to be at the point where the reader is left enamoured and not like someone slapped them unexpectedly.

As always, I rated the stories individually, and most of them ended up between 3 and 4 stars simply because the ending gave me indigestion. The only story that was PERFECT for me in every sense was “The Promise”, an epistolary story that is developed beautifully and incorporates amazing twists and a wonderful ending. “Bookmarked Letters” came a very close second.

If you are more open-minded about endings in short-stories, and want to read a collection with a variety of female characters (while still paying an ode to the Italian residents of Australia), you could give this a try.

3.1 stars based on the average of my rating for all the stories.

My thanks to BooksGoSocial and NetGalley for the DRC of “Everything in Between”. This review is voluntary and contains my honest opinion about the book.

A heartfelt collection of short stories about family, loss and love, and those special moments in between . . .
Bite size stories which had some good storylines.

Great book, interesting and page turning short stories, with intriguing characters!
Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of this book. I am voluntarily leaving a review.

This was a light read since it was filled with short stories and exactly what I needed to read after being too tired to read anything.

I wished the short stories was a bit longer especially the first one. I felt like it had an abrupt ending but that is sometimes the problem with reading short stories.

The writing is easy and it feels likes the author has experienced some of the stories herself because you could feel how the characters feels.