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A review by amymo73
Babysitter by Joyce Carol Oates
4.0
SPOILERS! I usually don't preface with this but this is one of those times when I wish I knew someone else who read this book. I mean, was Hannah dead? Did she die? What was that scene near the end when she went home but her husband and kids had moved months ago?
I'm like, whoa.
I really liked it. It was a disturbing read in parts as Hannah, bored in her 1977 suburban life, takes a lover, who is actually a criminal of some kind and definitely sexually assaulted her. Yet because she felt something, felt anything, to her, it was love.
It take some time to get used to Joyce Carol Oates writing style, which isn't for everyone. Nor is the graphic descriptions of sexual violence. It was basically a novel version of a well-done Netflix true crime docuseries (and I mean that as a compliment!)
I'm like, whoa.
I really liked it. It was a disturbing read in parts as Hannah, bored in her 1977 suburban life, takes a lover, who is actually a criminal of some kind and definitely sexually assaulted her. Yet because she felt something, felt anything, to her, it was love.
It take some time to get used to Joyce Carol Oates writing style, which isn't for everyone. Nor is the graphic descriptions of sexual violence. It was basically a novel version of a well-done Netflix true crime docuseries (and I mean that as a compliment!)