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badatplants 's review for:
Are You Awake?
by Claire McGowan
I tried to enjoy this so much. As a chronically sleep-deprived mom, I felt like I wasn’t going to be able to put it down. The first 30% of the book pulled me in but by the end:
-Nobody was remarkably interesting
-Nothing was unexpected
-Anything that does change isn’t particularly helpful for character development
There’s this really frustrating conversation about moms as primary parents and the emotional labor and it doesn’t resolve in any meaningful way. It felt very much like the real struggle of being a mom and being the primary parent where there’s no real acknowledgment when all is said and done…
-Nobody was remarkably interesting
-Nothing was unexpected
-Anything that does change isn’t particularly helpful for character development
There’s this really frustrating conversation about moms as primary parents and the emotional labor and it doesn’t resolve in any meaningful way. It felt very much like the real struggle of being a mom and being the primary parent where there’s no real acknowledgment when all is said and done…