A review by ava
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder

3.0

okay well. i never fully hated this and never fully loved it, but my feelings about the themes fluctuated wildly over the book. The events of the story were consistently interesting, but I'm so so sick of books that equate womanhood with suffering. I resonated with the parts that explored the alienation from one's self as a result of parenthood, something that's always scared me and spend a lot of time thinking about. There are moments where this is done really well and thoughtfully, but there are just as many where the added link of motherhood = biology = suffering made me uncomfortable and I did not relate to it at all. 

Otherwise this would have been exactly my kind of book. Unnamed narrator, body horror, pyramid scheme, etc. I just wish this spent more time talking about rage without making it some inalienable tenet of womanhood.