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A review by jillianleigh1993
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson
4.0
‘we’re going to rip her in half,’ morgen said, gasping, and the doctor answered grimly, ‘i wish we could.’
‘bemused with the need for discovering reason and coherence in a patternless time ; she was lost in an endless reflecting world’
This was delightfully creepy. The descent into chaotic madness as Betsy lurched her way through NYC had me in perfect suspense. I felt the building mania of the personalities fill me expectant dread, I kept waiting for the axe to fall. The book didn’t answer all of my questions, there was lingering confusion about the exact source of her trauma… But while the whole truth of Elizabeth’s strange childhood eluded the audience, there were enough breadcrumbs for us to draw our own conclusions. The weary alliance between Aunt Morgen and Dr. Wright was amusing. I really enjoyed the parts where Betsy warred with the other entities and Dr. Wright, but I did feel sorry for them all. When Elizabeth was questioning her aunt in the bath what would become of her, whether she would “die” when she was to be “subsumed” I felt that was biggest tragedy of the book. I definitely want to pick up my next Shirley Jackson book to read, I love my fucked-up psychological horror novels.
‘bemused with the need for discovering reason and coherence in a patternless time ; she was lost in an endless reflecting world’
This was delightfully creepy. The descent into chaotic madness as Betsy lurched her way through NYC had me in perfect suspense. I felt the building mania of the personalities fill me expectant dread, I kept waiting for the axe to fall. The book didn’t answer all of my questions, there was lingering confusion about the exact source of her trauma… But while the whole truth of Elizabeth’s strange childhood eluded the audience, there were enough breadcrumbs for us to draw our own conclusions. The weary alliance between Aunt Morgen and Dr. Wright was amusing. I really enjoyed the parts where Betsy warred with the other entities and Dr. Wright, but I did feel sorry for them all. When Elizabeth was questioning her aunt in the bath what would become of her, whether she would “die” when she was to be “subsumed” I felt that was biggest tragedy of the book. I definitely want to pick up my next Shirley Jackson book to read, I love my fucked-up psychological horror novels.