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A review by amyredgreen
Daughter by Jane Shemilt
1.0
Here are a few things wrong with this book:
Goes back and forth between present day and one year ago, which is fine except the present day sections are so incredibly boring. I check forecasts obsessively and even I got sick of hearing about the weather.
It feels like she periodically forgot about Theo being a character in the book. There are some kind of big things that come up with him and then are not really developed. His photography project would probably have been a much bigger deal.
The ending. Oh my god that ending! The ending is so dumb, and as other reviewers have pointed out, it really doesn't make sense to end it there. No spoilers but things could have been followed up on. (The only way the ending works is if you decide Jenny has just become completely delusional. But I don't think that's what you're supposed to think.)
But the worst thing about this book is its not very hidden message which is: Mommies shouldn't work or their kids will become lying stealing promiscuous drug addicts who run off with the gypsies because mommies who work don't know their children at all because all they care about is themselves. Working dads get a pass, naturally.
Goes back and forth between present day and one year ago, which is fine except the present day sections are so incredibly boring. I check forecasts obsessively and even I got sick of hearing about the weather.
It feels like she periodically forgot about Theo being a character in the book. There are some kind of big things that come up with him and then are not really developed. His photography project would probably have been a much bigger deal.
The ending. Oh my god that ending! The ending is so dumb, and as other reviewers have pointed out, it really doesn't make sense to end it there. No spoilers but things could have been followed up on. (The only way the ending works is if you decide Jenny has just become completely delusional. But I don't think that's what you're supposed to think.)
But the worst thing about this book is its not very hidden message which is: Mommies shouldn't work or their kids will become lying stealing promiscuous drug addicts who run off with the gypsies because mommies who work don't know their children at all because all they care about is themselves. Working dads get a pass, naturally.