angela_boyce 's review for:

The School for Good Mothers by Jessamine Chan
4.0

This was a haunting and heart wrenching read. I was invested in Frida’s journey, and appreciated the raw, difficult truths of motherhood, even if it was a bit heavy handed in its approach.

The dolls were creepy yet endearing—I wasn’t expecting that! I know they were supposed to be lifelike and resemble their mothers, but I could not stop picturing Emmanuelle as the demented doll from Toy Story 4 lol. But that’s my own fault, not the author’s.