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3.3 AVERAGE
3.3 AVERAGE
Susanna Sonnenberg’s Her Last Death tells about her own past with her mother, a woman who cheated, taught her daughter drugs, sex, and about to die with cancer. The ok starts in her early childhood when she was around the ages of 4-8, who witnessed her own mother and father’s divorce. Conflicting her inner emotions and care for the safety of her two sons, Suzanna aka Suzy, has to make a choice to see her mother or never see her again. Suzy avoids her mother or even anything to do with her mother, ends up breaking down at a slow pace, starting with old memories of her as a kid. The book converts to Suzy’s past, which was filled with innocents to a warped and pained girl.
When her father straight up asked,” Do you mastrubate?” I found that scene unimaginable. A father asking his own 8-year- old daughter if she has ever pleasure herself. Her father’s girlfriend had to show her how to have the first clueless orgasm in her life. This was memorable because of how I was raised, which was the complete opposite of any of this. An eight year old learning such thing to me is bewildering. Suzy was so young and so innocent to be asked such a question. During this scene, the father was also being irritated on how slow she reacted to the question, like he expects her to know mastrubation without any guidance.
Ultimately, the story of a woman going through her lift against her mom, cringing at the times when her boyfriend cheated on herewith her mom, lusting with envy with envy when her midgets the limelight, and writing in a diary that conceals all her wildest dreams and thoughts. It all adds up to a tale of a girl’s transforming into a woman with an abusive mother, a painful realization that her mother who feast her eyes on any man, wasn’t the ideal mother for any child. Her Last Death tells that story very well, showing all the crimes her mother committed to law and reveal that not all mothers know how to care for her children in the healthy way.
Despite how the book was entertaining to read, I wouldn’t recomend the book because it didn’t capture my highest peak of curiosity. It wasn’t the book were you would expect to turn to turn every page in awe, reading nonstop. The book gives a disturbing story that will make you cringe at the thought that it is a real story. Everyone is so blunt about their sexual perfercances and how “good” the guy is/was. There was no huge excitement and drama was filled in every page. This isn the book I would recomend to read if you aren’t into those things like drama, sex, and most of all, lies. Overall, it was a good read but not a great one to givea recommendation to read.
From what I have learned about the book wasn’t a very pleasant thing. It opened my eyes that there are families like Suzy’s, who are messed up in a particular way to make themselves swear to ever go the same path as their parents did. They would alway deal with excuses as to why their parents aren’t there for them or even give the proper care. I learned that there’s two types of family, the healthy one and the corrupted one. Both have their flaws but the one with the corrupted one has to face with reality and the strength to make it or break it, hoping to never cross that path ever again.
This book gave me the feeling of chills running down my spine. Each time I begin to read a part that was disturbing, I would quickly set the book down and control my thoughts to mentally prepare for the image the scene would give me. The experience of being able to read this book gave me the feeling of the terrible butterflies in the stomach process. “ Oh my god, she really did it?!” was me on almost every page. I, who could not resemble with her situation, would ball my eyes out, trying to absorb all the story into my head, feeling so frustrated that she could’be done something different and let go of those feeling of envy and jealousy.
When her father straight up asked,” Do you mastrubate?” I found that scene unimaginable. A father asking his own 8-year- old daughter if she has ever pleasure herself. Her father’s girlfriend had to show her how to have the first clueless orgasm in her life. This was memorable because of how I was raised, which was the complete opposite of any of this. An eight year old learning such thing to me is bewildering. Suzy was so young and so innocent to be asked such a question. During this scene, the father was also being irritated on how slow she reacted to the question, like he expects her to know mastrubation without any guidance.
Ultimately, the story of a woman going through her lift against her mom, cringing at the times when her boyfriend cheated on herewith her mom, lusting with envy with envy when her midgets the limelight, and writing in a diary that conceals all her wildest dreams and thoughts. It all adds up to a tale of a girl’s transforming into a woman with an abusive mother, a painful realization that her mother who feast her eyes on any man, wasn’t the ideal mother for any child. Her Last Death tells that story very well, showing all the crimes her mother committed to law and reveal that not all mothers know how to care for her children in the healthy way.
Despite how the book was entertaining to read, I wouldn’t recomend the book because it didn’t capture my highest peak of curiosity. It wasn’t the book were you would expect to turn to turn every page in awe, reading nonstop. The book gives a disturbing story that will make you cringe at the thought that it is a real story. Everyone is so blunt about their sexual perfercances and how “good” the guy is/was. There was no huge excitement and drama was filled in every page. This isn the book I would recomend to read if you aren’t into those things like drama, sex, and most of all, lies. Overall, it was a good read but not a great one to givea recommendation to read.
From what I have learned about the book wasn’t a very pleasant thing. It opened my eyes that there are families like Suzy’s, who are messed up in a particular way to make themselves swear to ever go the same path as their parents did. They would alway deal with excuses as to why their parents aren’t there for them or even give the proper care. I learned that there’s two types of family, the healthy one and the corrupted one. Both have their flaws but the one with the corrupted one has to face with reality and the strength to make it or break it, hoping to never cross that path ever again.
This book gave me the feeling of chills running down my spine. Each time I begin to read a part that was disturbing, I would quickly set the book down and control my thoughts to mentally prepare for the image the scene would give me. The experience of being able to read this book gave me the feeling of the terrible butterflies in the stomach process. “ Oh my god, she really did it?!” was me on almost every page. I, who could not resemble with her situation, would ball my eyes out, trying to absorb all the story into my head, feeling so frustrated that she could’be done something different and let go of those feeling of envy and jealousy.
This is a memoir about a daughter's struggle to understand her own feelings about her mother. In a way, this is relatable. But her mother's actions is something I can't really comprehend and something that's so unmother-like.
This was honestly so hard to read and even more hard to believe that someone can do such things to their own child.
This was honestly so hard to read and even more hard to believe that someone can do such things to their own child.
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Her Last Death is a shocking tell-all memoir, and it was obviously written to shock. As other reviewers have noted, Susanne repeatedly writes that she is a liar like her mother and I find many of her stories to be hard to believe. Most of those doubtful episodes starred her mother. That being said, there was a lot of honesty in this memoir as well. Susanna doesn't always cast herself in a positive light and that makes the story more believable.
There was a lot about this memoir that I found disturbing, like the lengthy and unneeded chapter about Susanna's decision to have an abortion and her previous decision to put down an unruly puppy.
Susanna had an exotic childhood followed by an exciting life in New York and she never elaborated on her choice to live a vastly different kind of life in rural Montana. She somehow ditched her mother and her past life without much reflection.
Her Last Death is a shocking tell-all memoir, and it was obviously written to shock. As other reviewers have noted, Susanne repeatedly writes that she is a liar like her mother and I find many of her stories to be hard to believe. Most of those doubtful episodes starred her mother. That being said, there was a lot of honesty in this memoir as well. Susanna doesn't always cast herself in a positive light and that makes the story more believable.
There was a lot about this memoir that I found disturbing, like the lengthy and unneeded chapter about Susanna's decision to have an abortion and her previous decision to put down an unruly puppy.
Susanna had an exotic childhood followed by an exciting life in New York and she never elaborated on her choice to live a vastly different kind of life in rural Montana. She somehow ditched her mother and her past life without much reflection.
I'm officially done with memoirs about people who had crazy parents who screwed them up for life. I thought Augusten Burroughs had a messed-up childhood, but Sonnenberg's--dominated by a mom who gave her cocaine, lied about having terminal illnesses, and slept with her boyfriends and classmates--may actually top his. I'm embarrassed to have inadvertently included myself in either of their reading audiences, although at least I can say I didn't buy either one's book and only read them because well-meaning friends handed them to me.
Didnt finish it, don't plan on finishing it, NEXT BOOK :D
Story : So I read up to page 106 and that was more than enough to figure out that I didn't like this book. I couldn't relate to the characters, I didn't feel bad for anyone and I thought it pretty poor written memoir.
Characters : What can I say about the characters...they're not very likable, even if the mom is meant to be unlikable , you still dont really hate her either. She's just a crappy mom but there isn't really that feeling of hate or dislike that you just feel bad for the people, it's more of a...meh, these people suck feeling.
Final Words : Maybe if I hadn't read another memoir about actual human struggles instead of a memoir about a girl who had too much coke and too much dick and has mommy issues. Yeah, I didn't like this XD
I can't give it a numbered rating because I didn't finish it, but I cant recommend this book.
Story : So I read up to page 106 and that was more than enough to figure out that I didn't like this book. I couldn't relate to the characters, I didn't feel bad for anyone and I thought it pretty poor written memoir.
Characters : What can I say about the characters...they're not very likable, even if the mom is meant to be unlikable , you still dont really hate her either. She's just a crappy mom but there isn't really that feeling of hate or dislike that you just feel bad for the people, it's more of a...meh, these people suck feeling.
Final Words : Maybe if I hadn't read another memoir about actual human struggles instead of a memoir about a girl who had too much coke and too much dick and has mommy issues. Yeah, I didn't like this XD
I can't give it a numbered rating because I didn't finish it, but I cant recommend this book.
Writing style can be a bit abrupt, jumpy in thoughts. I was really thankful to read this story, I hoped to read more about her mother and understand her motivations and feelings more. What a life of all these women....
Not quite as self indulgent as Eat Pray Love... and slightly more entertaining... but still horrible.
Wow, this was a tough book to read. A woman, raised by a completely insane mother, does some crazy stuff herself. A compelling, sad, quick read.
I'm only 25 pages in, but I love Susanna's writing style.
challenging
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced