A review by bonnieg
The Mothers by Brit Bennett

2.0

Absolutely average women's lit for the most part though buoyed by much better than average writing. The last quarter of the book was so filled with inexplicable choices it lost points. Also an issue - perhaps a bigger one - is the clear anti-choice messaging. A man is lionized for wanting to force a woman to bear a child and a woman is haunted for the rest of her life by her choice to have an abortion. These things were very problematic. (I acknowledge that some people are traumatized by their choice to terminate a pregnancy just as some people are traumatized by having a child, but the author was clearly trying to make a more universal statement, not just look at one woman's problems.) Overall a big "eh" for me.