Reviews for Winter tales

The average rating for Winter tales based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-12-10 00:00:00 Steven Moneysmith Grasmere book club choice. I really enjoyed most of the stories especially for the evoking a strong sense of place, culture and mood. Some of the stories were very moving, especially the one about the orphaned girl from the ship wreck. Unfortunately after one "Christian" story about loaves and fishes the others and the baby in a manger ones were just irritating.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-03-08 00:00:00 Arnaud Perucca The worst fiction by GMB I have read to date. These short stories are dull and overly heavy with Catholic symbolism which he beats his readers with mercilessly. He doesn't capture the isles as well as he does in his longer fiction or poetry and indeed the craft of short story writing totally escapes him in this collection. Even though many of these characters show up in other work, it is difficult to care about them. Absolutely no grace nor a smidgen of joy enlivens this work. Not for the casual reader and even a die hard fan might find it difficult to trudge through these pages.