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rebeccaritteeman 's review for:
Grey Dog
by Elliott Gish
I’d say more around 4.5 stars for me. I was quite disturbed, but what is this if not an incredibly disturbing book?
The pages flew by pretty quickly as I tried to decipher what was happening. I think this is like the tenth book I’ve read about an unreliable female narrator’s decent into madness either on their own or because of outside forces. So if that’s the kind of genre you’re into, you’ll enjoy this book! Honestly I wish there were like 50 more pages in it so I could know more about this grey dog.
Additionally: What I will say is that many reviews called this book a novel on feminist rage. There was a lot in this book that had to do with the confined spaces women of that time had to live in (and to be honest still are living in). But the heroine is NOT a representation of feminist rage. Not in my eyes at least. Unless you think that SPOILERS AHEAD beating kids, assaulting (and literally eating) another woman, never bathing ever again are representative of those things. I personally don’t think they are. I think the Main character represents what indoctrination and life long abuse and trauma and not fitting into society looks like. She was devoured by a beast that ate away at her because she was already broken and rotting. Not in a bad way!! Just. In a way.
This was a horror story. It was a tragedy. It absolutely did not have a happy ending but it was interesting to read. I was definitely rooting for Ada until… until I grew concerned just like Agatha grew concerned, then that concern turned into disgust and remained there until I grew plain horrified. If only Ada didn’t have to suffer through so much abuse and sadness throughout her own life… then maybe she wouldn’t have been given away to the grey dog like bait.
The pages flew by pretty quickly as I tried to decipher what was happening. I think this is like the tenth book I’ve read about an unreliable female narrator’s decent into madness either on their own or because of outside forces. So if that’s the kind of genre you’re into, you’ll enjoy this book! Honestly I wish there were like 50 more pages in it so I could know more about this grey dog.
Additionally: What I will say is that many reviews called this book a novel on feminist rage. There was a lot in this book that had to do with the confined spaces women of that time had to live in (and to be honest still are living in). But the heroine is NOT a representation of feminist rage. Not in my eyes at least. Unless you think that SPOILERS AHEAD beating kids, assaulting (and literally eating) another woman, never bathing ever again are representative of those things. I personally don’t think they are. I think the Main character represents what indoctrination and life long abuse and trauma and not fitting into society looks like. She was devoured by a beast that ate away at her because she was already broken and rotting. Not in a bad way!! Just. In a way.
This was a horror story. It was a tragedy. It absolutely did not have a happy ending but it was interesting to read. I was definitely rooting for Ada until… until I grew concerned just like Agatha grew concerned, then that concern turned into disgust and remained there until I grew plain horrified. If only Ada didn’t have to suffer through so much abuse and sadness throughout her own life… then maybe she wouldn’t have been given away to the grey dog like bait.