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A review by lavins
The Push by Ashley Audrain
3.0
First things first.
This is not a tense, page-turning psychological drama. Not in a long shot. It is a dark drama. Not a thriller, not a suspenseful one. The only suspense is knowing something worse is going to happen. And on that plan, it is not disappointing. Something worse will happen.
The whole book is about a collection of characters and their stories, and all of them bad, tragic, devastating.
The book is related from Blythe's perspective. We get a few stories about her family history (her mom and grandmother) but the main focus is her and her life and how that unfolds over time. The tone of the book is tragedy, darkness. There is not a shred of happiness in it. There are entire chapters relating in excruciating detail the pain (physical and non physical) of becoming a mother, of raising a baby and so on.
Violet turns out to be different than what was hoped in a child and some of the things she's getting away with are tragic.
Personally i've read this book in one sitting not because i've enjoyed it, but because i couldn't wait for it to be over. It was not my type of book. Far too negative and dark.
This is not a tense, page-turning psychological drama. Not in a long shot. It is a dark drama. Not a thriller, not a suspenseful one. The only suspense is knowing something worse is going to happen. And on that plan, it is not disappointing. Something worse will happen.
The whole book is about a collection of characters and their stories, and all of them bad, tragic, devastating.
The book is related from Blythe's perspective. We get a few stories about her family history (her mom and grandmother) but the main focus is her and her life and how that unfolds over time. The tone of the book is tragedy, darkness. There is not a shred of happiness in it. There are entire chapters relating in excruciating detail the pain (physical and non physical) of becoming a mother, of raising a baby and so on.
Violet turns out to be different than what was hoped in a child and some of the things she's getting away with are tragic.
Personally i've read this book in one sitting not because i've enjoyed it, but because i couldn't wait for it to be over. It was not my type of book. Far too negative and dark.