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lizanneinkan 's review for:
The Push
by Ashley Audrain
Pluses—focus on pregnancy (pre and post with physical issues illustrated), an understanding of the isolation of mothers w young children, a MIL character who is not a stereotype.
Minuses — a multi-generational plot that added no depth to the story, mental health used as a plot device (the sociopathic/psychopathic character who seems fine to all but one person…).
The first 20 chapters had me hooked and eager to read on, though I also had a sickening sense of where this was heading. The rest drags as it’s mostly in the narrator’s head while she rethinks conversations and events. I can’t relate to a character w no job who lives in comfortable middle class style (did I miss something?), just moping and planning and feeling depressed.
The epigraph at the beginning lays out the reason for tracing the narrator’s history—her disinterested mother, her disengaged grandmother. For me, this did not create the backstory to explain the narrator’s daughter.
This is such a weak way to make plot work—no motivation, just crazy town and running with scissors!
Minuses — a multi-generational plot that added no depth to the story, mental health used as a plot device (the sociopathic/psychopathic character who seems fine to all but one person…).
The first 20 chapters had me hooked and eager to read on, though I also had a sickening sense of where this was heading. The rest drags as it’s mostly in the narrator’s head while she rethinks conversations and events. I can’t relate to a character w no job who lives in comfortable middle class style (did I miss something?), just moping and planning and feeling depressed.
The epigraph at the beginning lays out the reason for tracing the narrator’s history—her disinterested mother, her disengaged grandmother. For me, this did not create the backstory to explain the narrator’s daughter.
This is such a weak way to make plot work—no motivation, just crazy town and running with scissors!