This is a beautiful selection of short stories about women. I often struggle with short stories, but i felt that i could pick up and later come back to this book which I really liked. The individual stories are often moving and poignant and are always thought provoking. I really enjoyed the author's writing style and found myself empathising which each character even within a short amount of time. Cecelia Ahern was able to grab my attention in each story straight away and i was often laughing or crying alongside the characters. I really would recommend this wonderful book for everyone!

“ Roar “ is written for every women , young, old, married, single, mother ; for every mood, happy, sad, frustrated, angry, joyful; for almost every stage and situation in our lives. It is like a wonderful selection of chocolate box, you will find one that you like the most. She was able to capture our unique, ordinary, original voices and was able to write wonderful stories related to all of us. Go on, have a look at it, I am sure that you will find one of your liking. Enjoy it.....

What a superb collection! I knew I would enjoy this collection as I always love the author's books, but these stories are something else! The first thing to note is to take the wonderful array of titles literally. Such fabulous stories deserve to be read, re-read and enjoyed several times over. I have smiled, giggled and sighed along with my reading and can't help but think this would be a fabulous book for any woman to gift to her female friends. Every single one provides food for thought and together they make an awesome anthology - and one I'm exceedingly happy to recommend. With Christmas on the horizon, this could solve several problems! My thanks to publishers Harper Collins for my copy via NetGalley. This is my honest, original and unbiased review.

Short story collections always make for interesting read - with some stories liked and others not so much - but hopefully something for everyone found within: I found this to be very much the case with Cecelia Ahern's newest release, Roar. Within Roar you'll find thirty stories highlighting prevalent matters that women face in day to day life - these are all told in a creative way, with magical realism running throughout, and all of which are handled in a sensitive manner, even when the story itself is humorous in nature. The collection as whole is all about empowering & lifting women - which the stories themselves definitely put across. There are a variety of themes that run through the book, and also diversity in the characters too. Speaking of characters, each story has a different woman front and centre, however she has no name; being referred to as 'the woman'. I think this was a brave writing tactic as it could go one of two ways - you'd feel connected to the character as you can put yourself in their shoes more easily, or you'd feel disconnected from the character as she hasn't got the depth & substance we'd be used to in a book. Personally, I found the focal woman of a story having no name didn't impact my reading experience in a negative way. Naturally there were some stories I enjoyed more than others, with a few of my favourites including: The Woman Who Grew Wings, The Woman Who Ate Photographs, The Woman Who Returned and Exchanged Her Husband, The Woman Who Wore Her Heart on Her Sleeve, The Woman Who Guarded Gonads, and The Woman Who Smiled. Roar is a wonderful collection of cleverly written short stories that you can dip in & out of (I read my copy throughout the month of January), and would make a good introduction to Cecelia Ahern's writing style.

Sometimes a book just comes along that is so good you can not stop talking about it. This is one of those. I will guarantee you will find at least one character that you can relate to. This book has been written about women, for women. This heartfelt novel will make you think about the value of life. Be Brave, Be Confident, Be who you want to be!