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A review by pickwickthedodo
The Wisdom of Sally Red Shoes by Ruth Hogan
1.0
Excuse me?? What on earth did I just read?
This was such a lovely, moving story about a woman coming to terms with her grief and realising it's still okay to live her life after the horrific loss of her young son.
And then????
It turns out her son DIDN'T die years ago? He was TAKEN BY SOME RANDOM WOMAN FOR WHOM I'M SUPPOSED TO FEEL SYMPATHY? What the actual fuck?
AND THEN???? She finally gets her son back but we don't get to see any of that. There's a ridiculous time jump portraying them as a happy family. He's a teenager now, he's lived for A FULL DECADE thinking someone else was his mother, and now that woman is dead and he's just supposed to seamlessly fit into this new (original) family??? With no problems? No settling? No development whatsoever? Fuck right off with that.
I cannot imagine the awful feeling of bait and switch if a person read this book on their healing journey from losing a child. It almost felt cruel.
You'd get no stars from me if I had it my way.
This was such a lovely, moving story about a woman coming to terms with her grief and realising it's still okay to live her life after the horrific loss of her young son.
And then????
It turns out her son DIDN'T die years ago? He was TAKEN BY SOME RANDOM WOMAN FOR WHOM I'M SUPPOSED TO FEEL SYMPATHY? What the actual fuck?
AND THEN???? She finally gets her son back but we don't get to see any of that. There's a ridiculous time jump portraying them as a happy family. He's a teenager now, he's lived for A FULL DECADE thinking someone else was his mother, and now that woman is dead and he's just supposed to seamlessly fit into this new (original) family??? With no problems? No settling? No development whatsoever? Fuck right off with that.
I cannot imagine the awful feeling of bait and switch if a person read this book on their healing journey from losing a child. It almost felt cruel.
You'd get no stars from me if I had it my way.