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    Audiobook7 hours

    Roar

    Written by Cecelia Ahern and Lara Sawalha

    Narrated by Aisling Bea and Adjoa Andoh

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Have you ever imagined a different life?
    Have you ever stood at a crossroads, undecided…Have you ever had a moment when you wanted to roar?

    Now an Apple Original series from Apple TV+

    A story for every woman.
    A story for every moment.

    Whether you want to laugh
    To be moved
    To love
    To feel less guilt
    To cry
    To be comforted
    To ROAR
    There is a story for you.

    From Sunday Times bestselling author Cecelia Ahern comes a collection of witty, original and moving stories for women everywhere.

    ‘Funny, wise and weighty, in a very good way…read one or two of Ahern’s fables at a time [to] truly appreciate their wit, pathos and imagination.’ Independent
    ‘Witty, playful, entertaining but also thought-provoking, salutary and empowering’ Daily Mail
    A Radio 2 Bookclub Choice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateNov 1, 2018
    ISBN9780008283520
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    Roar
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    Cecelia Ahern

    Cecelia Ahern was born and grew up in Dublin. Her novels have been translated into thirty-five languages and have sold more than twenty-five million copies in over fifty countries. Two of her books have been adapted as films and she has created several TV series. She and her books have won numerous awards, including the Irish Book Award for Popular Fiction for The Year I Met You. She lives in Dublin with her family.

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    • 3/5
      This book was so good! But certain stories didn’t grab my attention.
    • 5/5
      An absolute must! Loved every story. Will return again & again.
    • 4/5
      Women's rights, women's mental health, women in a world run by men. I loved this collection of short stories from women about all the issues affecting women. Many of these oppressions I've never seen they just felt natural. It's the obvious and the little pecking ways, packing at our right to be equal, they really add up.Fantastic audiobook
    • 2/5
      I am quitting at the halfway point. While the ideas behind the stories are good, they don't feel fully fleshed out and they are so flat and lifeless, as a reader I just don't care. If you want to read something along these lines that is FANTASTIC, read Aimee Bender instead.
    • 3/5
      This book contains 30 very short stories about women facing challenges which, to me, read like fairy tales since most of them were unrealistic. In each story, the woman was referred to as "the woman." Other characters had a name but the protagonist did not.Each story dealt with "the woman's" feelings in a particular situation. I could relate to some, but others felt strange to me so it was hard to relate to that particular woman. I felt the author was trying to empower women by making the stories humorous as well as thought-provoking but sometimes I was at a loss.I won this book in Bookreporter's Spring Preview's contest in exchange for my honest opinion.
    • 4/5
      Looks like I'm in the minority here (at least for now). I absolutely loved this book. I found the stories to be intriguing, often funny. I think the author added a little twist to so many issues facing women -- by taking expressions like "falling apart" or "pigeon-holing" literally, she is able to show the absurdity of some of our social beliefs and/or explain in a unique way the everyday dilemmas of life. Very imaginative.
    • 2/5
      I liked the concept for this collection of short stories. You can never have enough female empowerment stories. Although, I will admit (sadly) that I found about half of the stories to be really good. In fact, some of the stories were intriguing and some even brought humor. Yet, there were a handful of stories that I didn't care for or the stories did not resonate with me as strongly. Here are some of my favorite stories:The Woman Who Slowly DisappearedThe Woman Who Grew WingsThe Woman Who Ate PhotographsThe Woman Who Forgot Her NameThe Woman Who Returned and Exchanged Her HusbandThe Woman Who Walked in Her Husband's ShoesThe Woman Who SmiledThe Woman Who RoaredEach story did have a purpose. Some I felt were not really believable and others just kind of plain boring. Yet, the ones that I really liked, showed women I felt in strong ways where they came out as victorious. Not against others but among themselves. A strong, confident woman is a sexy, beautiful woman.
    • 2/5
      This collection of 30 stories was such a disappointment! The allegories based on hardships suffered by women were so unsubtle and repetitious it was hard not to scream in agony, especially at the lapse of creativity compared to Ahern's previous books. She seemed to be going for a vibe like “The Metamorphosis” by Franz Kafka, in which a salesman wakes up one morning to find himself inexplicably changed into a huge insect. Similarly, Ahern creates a series of tales about symbolic transformations, in this case intended to highlight gender issues. But she was so over the top, and the writing was so leaden and trite, the stories could arouse no sympathy whatsoever in me for the characters, only in me as a reader.