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A review by boorrito
Beside the Sea by Véronique Olmi
4.0
As books about a woman collapsing in on herself from her anxieties, fears and distress before deciding to murder her children go, this one's a doozy.
That might sound sarcastic, but it's not. Even though I knew from the start exactly where this book was going, that didn't make the journey any less tense or the final pages any less horrifying. Olmi made me care not only for the two sons but for their unnamed mother as she descends into such a dark place. She loves her sons, and how could she not? It just gets twisted into the most perverse way it can in her bid to protect them from the world while failing to protect them from herself.
It's good. Go read it.
That might sound sarcastic, but it's not. Even though I knew from the start exactly where this book was going, that didn't make the journey any less tense or the final pages any less horrifying. Olmi made me care not only for the two sons but for their unnamed mother as she descends into such a dark place. She loves her sons, and how could she not? It just gets twisted into the most perverse way it can in her bid to protect them from the world while failing to protect them from herself.
It's good. Go read it.