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A review by sofia_reading
The Mothers by Brit Bennett
5.0
“Suffering pain is what made you a woman. Most of the milestones in a woman’s life were accompanied by pain, like her first time having sex or birthing a child. For men, it was all orgasms and champagne.”
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“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.”
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“After a secret’s been told, everyone becomes a prophet.”
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I could go on with the quotes from Brit Bennett‘s The Mothers but I’d be at risk of re-writing much of the book 😬
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I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, but that cover and the reviews I’d seen put it straight to the top of my TBR pile and I was not disappointed, I loved this book! The story follows the fate of Nadia Turner, who at just 16 has lost her mother. Her vulnerability and the fear of what may happen to her got me emotionally invested in her within the first few pages-was that the mother in me? Maybe. She falls in love with Luke Sheppard and the rest of the story is the dance of their fates weaving in and out of each other’s lives. But the story serves so much more than just that. It tells the story of friendship between Nadia and Aubrey as well; two motherless girls and the bond that forged between them. It’s a story about love and loss, secrets and truths, friendships and betrayal, community and how it can hold us and how it can break us.
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I devoured this book in 3 days and I got lots of messages asking which book I was posting from when I shared snippets on my instastory!
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It’s a light simmering read. No huge plot twists, no massive reveals. But I love slow cooking, subtle books that deliver loads of thought provoking quotables and leave me in that after book haze of a good read.
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“Grief was not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. You never knew when you would be sling-shot backward into its grip.”
.
“After a secret’s been told, everyone becomes a prophet.”
.
I could go on with the quotes from Brit Bennett‘s The Mothers but I’d be at risk of re-writing much of the book 😬
.
I wasn’t sure what to expect from this book, but that cover and the reviews I’d seen put it straight to the top of my TBR pile and I was not disappointed, I loved this book! The story follows the fate of Nadia Turner, who at just 16 has lost her mother. Her vulnerability and the fear of what may happen to her got me emotionally invested in her within the first few pages-was that the mother in me? Maybe. She falls in love with Luke Sheppard and the rest of the story is the dance of their fates weaving in and out of each other’s lives. But the story serves so much more than just that. It tells the story of friendship between Nadia and Aubrey as well; two motherless girls and the bond that forged between them. It’s a story about love and loss, secrets and truths, friendships and betrayal, community and how it can hold us and how it can break us.
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I devoured this book in 3 days and I got lots of messages asking which book I was posting from when I shared snippets on my instastory!
.
It’s a light simmering read. No huge plot twists, no massive reveals. But I love slow cooking, subtle books that deliver loads of thought provoking quotables and leave me in that after book haze of a good read.