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Our Hideous Progeny
by C.E. McGill
3.5 stars rounded up to 4!
For starters, I really thought that this would be a “good for her!” type of book; it was, in a sense, but the ending did not give me the same satisfaction as, say, Midsommar. Throughout the book, I grew to hate Henry more and more. I despised him. However, I got through it by reminding myself of the prologue, in which Mary asks to go by her maiden name; I assumed that, at some point, Henry would die. Not quite. Sigh. If I was Mary, I would’ve let him hang, honestly. The cherry on top was when Mary finds out that she was born as a legitimate child *and* is the sole recipient of her grandmother’s inheritance…and then Mary can’t *actually* use the money. I realize that finance was (and still is) a ghastly, quite misogynistic sector, but really? All of the inheritance had to go to her *husband*?! So, perhaps Mary did have a happy ending, but what would have made it much more “good for her!” is if she’d done away with the rude husband and taken her own inheritance.
I was really quite sad about the relationship between Mary and her Creature. The fact that the whole thing was her idea in the first place? And she was the only one who truly cared for the Creature? I mean like…playing fetch with her pencils, letting the Creature put its head in her lap…it was so painful to read knowing that there was really no way for it all to end well. And when she realized that the stitches were coming undone and yet she had no way of knowing that it was in pain?! Despite the fact that it was some strange recreation of a dinosaur, I couldn’t help but picture, like…a puppy.
For starters, I really thought that this would be a “good for her!” type of book; it was, in a sense, but the ending did not give me the same satisfaction as, say, Midsommar. Throughout the book, I grew to hate Henry more and more. I despised him. However, I got through it by reminding myself of the prologue, in which Mary asks to go by her maiden name; I assumed that, at some point, Henry would die. Not quite. Sigh. If I was Mary, I would’ve let him hang, honestly. The cherry on top was when Mary finds out that she was born as a legitimate child *and* is the sole recipient of her grandmother’s inheritance…and then Mary can’t *actually* use the money. I realize that finance was (and still is) a ghastly, quite misogynistic sector, but really? All of the inheritance had to go to her *husband*?! So, perhaps Mary did have a happy ending, but what would have made it much more “good for her!” is if she’d done away with the rude husband and taken her own inheritance.
I was really quite sad about the relationship between Mary and her Creature. The fact that the whole thing was her idea in the first place? And she was the only one who truly cared for the Creature? I mean like…playing fetch with her pencils, letting the Creature put its head in her lap…it was so painful to read knowing that there was really no way for it all to end well. And when she realized that the stitches were coming undone and yet she had no way of knowing that it was in pain?! Despite the fact that it was some strange recreation of a dinosaur, I couldn’t help but picture, like…a puppy.