A review by collegekarma
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan

1.0

Um... what was the point the author was trying to make? There's no coherence, it seems, no clear story behind family dynamics as to why they turned out this way. Parental figures that one expects to be crucial into explaining the said dynamics were not really fleshed out.
The book didn't feel claustrophobic or macabre, just disgusting at times, lackluster and a bit confusing but not in a thought-provoking way.