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The School for Good Mothers
by Jessamine Chan
I feel like there was so much hype around this book. Which I don’t really understand
While I did not hate it, I did not like it. To be honest I did not like anything about it. The story. The characters. The ending. Nothing.
My biggest problem with this book was that the whole story revolves around a woman who did something really bad. REALLY bad. And dangerous. Yet I felt as though this was downplayed. Almost as though I was expected to feel sorry for her. Sorry that she was being punished for something that definitely warranted punishment. I understand that sometimes people are put in horrible situations and forced to make extremely difficult decisions. But this was not one of those situations. This was a woman with options and resources who chose to do something really stupid. If she was suffering from PPD, this is never expressed, and it’s left to the reader to assume she just didn’t care enough to do right by her child.
Then there were characters who were being punished for far lesser offences or even accidents and we’re treated at though these were just as bad, or even worse. I don’t know if that was because that’s how the author feels or if that was to further illustrate the insanity surrounding this “school for bad mothers”
This book made me angry about a lot of things as it delt with many hard hitting topics. But there were so many uncomfortable interactions that I got lost in all the fights being fought.
While I did not hate it, I did not like it. To be honest I did not like anything about it. The story. The characters. The ending. Nothing.
My biggest problem with this book was that the whole story revolves around a woman who did something really bad. REALLY bad. And dangerous. Yet I felt as though this was downplayed. Almost as though I was expected to feel sorry for her. Sorry that she was being punished for something that definitely warranted punishment. I understand that sometimes people are put in horrible situations and forced to make extremely difficult decisions. But this was not one of those situations. This was a woman with options and resources who chose to do something really stupid. If she was suffering from PPD, this is never expressed, and it’s left to the reader to assume she just didn’t care enough to do right by her child.
Then there were characters who were being punished for far lesser offences or even accidents and we’re treated at though these were just as bad, or even worse. I don’t know if that was because that’s how the author feels or if that was to further illustrate the insanity surrounding this “school for bad mothers”
This book made me angry about a lot of things as it delt with many hard hitting topics. But there were so many uncomfortable interactions that I got lost in all the fights being fought.