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3.61 AVERAGE
3.61 AVERAGE
dark
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
inspiring
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
dark
reflective
medium-paced
At first I really loved this book as I felt So fucking understood/heard/validated/seen/acknowledged. But then this book was so uncannily familiar to my life and my thoughts (minus the animal stuff lol) that it was causing me some serious existential dread. Goddamn this book cut me to the core!!! It truly felt sometimes like someone hijacked my brain and wrote a book about it. What the fuck. It was amazing and terrifying simultaneously. It definitely succeeds at depicting the life of a feminist stay-at-home mom. It is perfectly written.
I dinged a star solely for personal reasons of putting the book down and avoiding it sometimes because it was fucking with my brain and hitting too close to home and giving me nightmares. It was exquisitely grotesque and a total mindfuck.
I dinged a star solely for personal reasons of putting the book down and avoiding it sometimes because it was fucking with my brain and hitting too close to home and giving me nightmares. It was exquisitely grotesque and a total mindfuck.
Really three and a half stars. A god damn WEIRD book, from start to finish, but I could not put it down. Intrigued to see how this translates on screen when they make the movie, and definitely excited to see Amy Adams play such a decidedly unhinged character.
challenging
dark
emotional
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I absolutely hated the first third of this book. The chaotic stream of consciousness was too much for me. But as I got used to it and the narrator progresses it becomes more focused and decipherable. Not sure if I like it or not but it was an intriguing read at the very least.
I thought this was going to be another book from tiktok that ends in disappointment. I was so shocked at the beautiful and barren truth it has to offer about the feminine experience and motherhood. It made me understand parenting in a way that I only could have imagined. I wish I could give every woman this book. The rage that the main character feels coupled with the beautiful end all written in a way that is eloquent but so real. A rate five-starer
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
No words. 5 stars.