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3.16 AVERAGE
3.16 AVERAGE
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Anticlimactic and bland ending. Unlike Hogarth.
Well written, a little dark, and funny enough.
Well written, a little dark, and funny enough.
After reading Motherthing last year I expected way more than this, the writing style is the same but the story itself disappointing and very dull.
dark
funny
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This writer must have some serious dirt on whoever got this published. Blackmail is the only way this book got through. Ashton, are you out there? You can yell punk’d now. It was so bad. Please don’t do it.
This book was tiring to read. I wanted to finish it as quickly as possible and simultaneously didn’t want to pick it back up. The topics that Hogarth explores are interesting enough, but they failed to fill out as the plot droned on. Despite being incredibly unrealistic, the ending was fitting because, like the rest of the reading experience, it was a massive let-down.
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“Married women, on the other hand, had a decreased life expectancy, decreased even further for those with children. Marriage and children, the two most powerful cultural currents for women, the two things they’re trained from birth to desire more than anything else, were, in fact, destroying them.”
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“Married women, on the other hand, had a decreased life expectancy, decreased even further for those with children. Marriage and children, the two most powerful cultural currents for women, the two things they’re trained from birth to desire more than anything else, were, in fact, destroying them.”
lighthearted
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
funny
mysterious
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
HELLO AND WELCOME TO MY EPIPHANY:
I love the real housewives and celebrity gossip. I love sipping my tea and watching rich women scream at each other and talk crap about their husbands. I really love drama as long as it isn't mine. It's my guilty pleasure. It sooths me. I am terrible for it, and I accept that.
But...when I read about rich moms drinking and talking crap and being terrible, I just don't like it. I don't like domestic books. I don't like reading about mom drama. Which is weird because I love mom HORROR. But this is not mom horror. And even if it is snarky and witty and supposed to be satirical...I just don't like it. It doesn't land for me.
I didn't like this book. And I'm bummed because I should have loved it. It had everything I love: literary fiction, women vs. the void, culty vibes, f*ck the patriarchy, unlikable female main character, etcetera, etcetera.
This was marketed as a mystery and made it seem like this woman who is dealing with becoming a stay at home mom becomes obsessed with a woman who runs a cult. Then the woman disappears and she makes it her mission to find this woman she's obsessed with.
That doesn't happen for most of the book and I felt like it was mostly just Dani talking to her mom friends aka "normal women" and secretly hating her husband.
And so my epiphany is this: Maybe this is a good book for some people. Maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe I don't get it. But all this felt like was mom drama and I finally come to accept that mom drama just *is not for me*
I love the real housewives and celebrity gossip. I love sipping my tea and watching rich women scream at each other and talk crap about their husbands. I really love drama as long as it isn't mine. It's my guilty pleasure. It sooths me. I am terrible for it, and I accept that.
But...when I read about rich moms drinking and talking crap and being terrible, I just don't like it. I don't like domestic books. I don't like reading about mom drama. Which is weird because I love mom HORROR. But this is not mom horror. And even if it is snarky and witty and supposed to be satirical...I just don't like it. It doesn't land for me.
I didn't like this book. And I'm bummed because I should have loved it. It had everything I love: literary fiction, women vs. the void, culty vibes, f*ck the patriarchy, unlikable female main character, etcetera, etcetera.
This was marketed as a mystery and made it seem like this woman who is dealing with becoming a stay at home mom becomes obsessed with a woman who runs a cult. Then the woman disappears and she makes it her mission to find this woman she's obsessed with.
That doesn't happen for most of the book and I felt like it was mostly just Dani talking to her mom friends aka "normal women" and secretly hating her husband.
And so my epiphany is this: Maybe this is a good book for some people. Maybe I'm missing the point. Maybe I don't get it. But all this felt like was mom drama and I finally come to accept that mom drama just *is not for me*
Nothing about this book was believable. It was just all so confusing and slow. Some okay commentary about women and being a mother and relationships with partners after having a baby. But really everything related to the yoga temple thing and the people involved was completely unbelievable. And she never even went in except to drink. I wish I hadn't wasted my time reading this.
This is one of those books that have elements you really, really liked but major disappointments in the storyline. I really liked that the author chose our main heroine as a prototype of a Normal Woman (a wife, a mother, a daughter, a homemaker) who has reached a point in her life where she needs to find herself or some greater purpose. On the one hand, she spends her days trying to fit in with other Normal Women, on the other hand, she wants to do more. And then she meets someone who could help her understand her supposedly real purpose in life. Without giving much away, we get to spend a lot of time in the head of an everyday woman ambushed by various societal expectations and trends while seeing weird conspiracies in places they might or might not exist. The outcome of this whole story was disappointing as I lost all credibility in the storyline. The level of coincidences that had to take place for it to work out the way it did is even a bit too much for fiction, in my humble opinion. But, most importantly, I don't think it delivered the societal message this story had the potential to deliver.