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A review by obsidian_blue
The Mother by Valerie Keogh
1.0
This book just had way too many twist and turns that were simply unbelievable. And I honestly didn't like either of the main characters that we started to follow in this, Sarah and Zee. The other characters that we follow were not very well developed and the overall flow of the book was just so slow.
"The Mother" follows newlywed Sarah Westfield. Sarah isn't happy and she realizes that she should not have married her husband Nick. However, when Nick proposes they have a baby, she starts to hope the baby will bring them closer [ahem, this is always a terrible idea---do not do this]. When their baby Kaya arrives though, things seem to be even more bleak. When Sarah proposes a trip for their new family, they go out and just like that, Kaya is taken. The book follows the Westfield's marriage and who could have taken Kaya and why.
Eh. Sarah sucks. Her best friend, Jade, at one point reads her for filth and she needed it. She's selfish, does not really care about others, etc. Once again, it's hard to read a thriller where you don't like the main character in it.
Nick was not well developed at all. He was barely in this book, but we hard how annoying he was constantly from Sarah.
The other characters, Jade, the parents, etc. just come in and out and don't really do anything. Jade we only come back to in the end.
The book also then shifts to Zee, a police officer who is suspicious of Sarah and her story about her daughter being taken. Zee isn't much better. Instead she judges Sarah for being a terrible mother [she is though so whatever to that whole thing]. I don't think shifting the book from Sarah to Zee made much sense. Probably because readers already knew what Sarah was/was not doing so it was a weird thing to toss in there especially when we get to the end and don't follow back up with Zee.
The flow was just awful. The book is just Sarah complaining throughout and doing some terrible things through justifications of her marriage.
The ending was a mess.
"The Mother" follows newlywed Sarah Westfield. Sarah isn't happy and she realizes that she should not have married her husband Nick. However, when Nick proposes they have a baby, she starts to hope the baby will bring them closer [ahem, this is always a terrible idea---do not do this]. When their baby Kaya arrives though, things seem to be even more bleak. When Sarah proposes a trip for their new family, they go out and just like that, Kaya is taken. The book follows the Westfield's marriage and who could have taken Kaya and why.
Eh. Sarah sucks. Her best friend, Jade, at one point reads her for filth and she needed it. She's selfish, does not really care about others, etc. Once again, it's hard to read a thriller where you don't like the main character in it.
Nick was not well developed at all. He was barely in this book, but we hard how annoying he was constantly from Sarah.
The other characters, Jade, the parents, etc. just come in and out and don't really do anything. Jade we only come back to in the end.
The book also then shifts to Zee, a police officer who is suspicious of Sarah and her story about her daughter being taken. Zee isn't much better. Instead she judges Sarah for being a terrible mother [she is though so whatever to that whole thing]. I don't think shifting the book from Sarah to Zee made much sense. Probably because readers already knew what Sarah was/was not doing so it was a weird thing to toss in there especially when we get to the end and don't follow back up with Zee.
The flow was just awful. The book is just Sarah complaining throughout and doing some terrible things through justifications of her marriage.
The ending was a mess.