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madderhatter5304 's review for:
Nightbitch
by Rachel Yoder
dark
sad
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I feel like part 1 scared me out of motherhood. This book is strange, but it definitely covers motherhood/post-partum rage media I'm a way that I've never seen (in a good way). Part 2, I was mostly lost ngl but I was often shocked at how her husband went from seeming distant and shrugging off her problems to extremely supportive and understanding, which was cool just unexpected. Part 3 was even more weird. Her art show was very strange but it mostly just showed a feral mother taking care of her feral kid, which is what parenting is, isn't it?
I thought it was a good touch that we never got her real name, just "mother" or "nightbitch" to show, especially at the beginning, that aspect of her life took over her entire identity and she no longer was anything other than "mother", it helped portray her struggle of staying at home instead of working, because you know that she hated it. I also really liked that it was following her inner dialogue but it was still in 3rd person.
Half the time I couldn't tell if her dog happenings where just a manic episode or real. Also the other mother dog figures, was that to show that mother's are all in this together and 1 in the same? Or was it simply her trying to create friends that understood her because she was lonely?
Anyways, it was pretty good. Strange, I have lots of questions, but I think it was mostly interesting and enjoyable, although I did not like her killing the cat, I HATED the animal death parts
I LOVED the audio reader! She made the book experience more enjoyable, especially since the book has no quotation marks and I really struggle with that
I thought it was a good touch that we never got her real name, just "mother" or "nightbitch" to show, especially at the beginning, that aspect of her life took over her entire identity and she no longer was anything other than "mother", it helped portray her struggle of staying at home instead of working, because you know that she hated it. I also really liked that it was following her inner dialogue but it was still in 3rd person.
Half the time I couldn't tell if her dog happenings where just a manic episode or real. Also the other mother dog figures, was that to show that mother's are all in this together and 1 in the same? Or was it simply her trying to create friends that understood her because she was lonely?
Anyways, it was pretty good. Strange, I have lots of questions, but I think it was mostly interesting and enjoyable, although I did not like her killing the cat, I HATED the animal death parts
I LOVED the audio reader! She made the book experience more enjoyable, especially since the book has no quotation marks and I really struggle with that
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
Moderate: Blood