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Little Disasters
by Sarah Vaughan
On all accounts, I really wanted this to be a really good book, and it could have been.
At its core, a story about the isolation of motherhood, lack of mental health awareness and resources, and shitty man-child husbands. And then there’s an aspect about the relationships between a mother and her child, about how childhood abuse and neglect follows us into our adult lives. And then also a couple “plot twists” that aren’t really necessary. And while all of this COULD fit together smoothly and neatly in a well-written fiction novel with social commentary about real word problems… this book does not do that.
The theme of the story seems to be confused by the author, as if she thought of a few and couldn’t decide so she wrote all of them without developing ANY of them. Further, the characters struggle to have much of a voice or personality, they have even less of a relationship between each other, and the back and forth of perspectives and timelines only distracts from the story instead of adding to it. The writing is simple. I finished the book in about an hour. It’s not bad, but it’s nothing exceptional.
In short, this was a book that COULD have been really good, but unfortunately wasn’t.
At its core, a story about the isolation of motherhood, lack of mental health awareness and resources, and shitty man-child husbands. And then there’s an aspect about the relationships between a mother and her child, about how childhood abuse and neglect follows us into our adult lives. And then also a couple “plot twists” that aren’t really necessary. And while all of this COULD fit together smoothly and neatly in a well-written fiction novel with social commentary about real word problems… this book does not do that.
The theme of the story seems to be confused by the author, as if she thought of a few and couldn’t decide so she wrote all of them without developing ANY of them. Further, the characters struggle to have much of a voice or personality, they have even less of a relationship between each other, and the back and forth of perspectives and timelines only distracts from the story instead of adding to it. The writing is simple. I finished the book in about an hour. It’s not bad, but it’s nothing exceptional.
In short, this was a book that COULD have been really good, but unfortunately wasn’t.