Reviews - The School for Good Mothers

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The School for Good Mothers

Jessamine Chan

3.7 AVERAGE

reneetjeee's review against another edition

4.75

challenging dark emotional hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced

moreadventurous711's review against another edition

3.0

So infuriating. I love a dystopian novel but this would never happen.

dcdoesart's review against another edition

2.0

4/10

Frida gets her child taken away after leaving her baby alone in the house. The government believes that schooling is the right answer here.

Read if you want a book that tries to be exaggeratedly satirical but just... ends up describing the experience of the CPS system for some families.

newknew's review against another edition

3.0

Had its fun/interesting moments but every chapter could’ve been half the length it was

freshfromphyl's review against another edition

4.0

As if motherhood isn't hard enough, this book shows us a world in which it could be so much harder. It broke my heart.

anniefj's review against another edition

3.0

challenging dark reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

girlofthe21stcentury's review against another edition

4.0

dark emotional sad tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Plot

Strong character development: Complicated

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I wish this could have been a 5 star read, but the ending felt lackluster to me. I feel like this was a great reflection of society today, the patriarchy and racism being included I thought was done very well. The juxtaposition of the different characters and how they mirror eachother was quite impressive. Some pieces of the book feel like they could have been developed more.