A review by bookwoods
The Bird's Nest by Shirley Jackson

3.0

We Have Always Lived in the Castle might have set up my expectations for Shirley Jackson´s other novels a bit too high and The Bird´s Nest ended up not being exactly to my taste. It´s too psychological and slow-moving. However, I can understand why others find this exploration of the human mind extremely interesting and the unsettling atmosphere fascinating. I did really like some aspects of the story, the characters descriptions for instance are amazingly detailed. I also have never read a book about multiple personalities and it´s always great to learn something new. The biggest problem was the plot. I really struggled to pick The Bird´s Nest up, maybe because it was so challenging, which in itself is definitely not a negative thing, but also because it felt dragging. Though I´m not really the target audience as I have always disliked psychology.