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haylisreading 's review for:
Olive
by Emma Gannon
**Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a copy of the audiobook for me to review for the release date of the paperback of this book! March 3, 2021
I want to start this out by saying that I really, really liked this book. As a woman who has been struggling with her sexuality for years, I’ve definitely thought about whether I want to have biological children. I am asexual and I don’t want to bring kids into the current world we live in. Plus, it doesn’t really appeal to me. I like children, for the most part. I just don’t want to have any myself.
Which brings me to our main character, Olive. Olive recently has broken up with her longtime boyfriend because he wanted kids and she didn’t. She’s surrounded by women who already have families, are pregnant, or trying to become pregnant. All she wants to hear is validation from someone saying that it’s okay that she doesn’t want children! But instead she’s hit with the “it’s a phase” and “you’ll want them eventually” talks. At one point, she is bluntly told that her feelings are not as important as someone who doesn’t want children, because there are women who are struggling to conceive.
There were a lot of characters who put her down and told her she would reconsider, but there were also characters who felt the same way.
I want to start this out by saying that I really, really liked this book. As a woman who has been struggling with her sexuality for years, I’ve definitely thought about whether I want to have biological children. I am asexual and I don’t want to bring kids into the current world we live in. Plus, it doesn’t really appeal to me. I like children, for the most part. I just don’t want to have any myself.
Which brings me to our main character, Olive. Olive recently has broken up with her longtime boyfriend because he wanted kids and she didn’t. She’s surrounded by women who already have families, are pregnant, or trying to become pregnant. All she wants to hear is validation from someone saying that it’s okay that she doesn’t want children! But instead she’s hit with the “it’s a phase” and “you’ll want them eventually” talks. At one point, she is bluntly told that her feelings are not as important as someone who doesn’t want children, because there are women who are struggling to conceive.
There were a lot of characters who put her down and told her she would reconsider, but there were also characters who felt the same way.