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A review by bookclubtrivia
The Reading Group by Elizabeth Noble
4.0
The book is written well enough, but idk, it just gives me bad vibes. Basically all of the characters are in shitty marriages (and one of them is only shitty because she makes it that way). There’s a lot of cheating. Maybe it is realistic for such a large percentage of couples to be unhappy? It’s not that common in my circles; I just found it depressing.
And the part that really bothered me (spoiler): one of the women goes as far as like oral sex with this dude, despite having a husband who loves her, and THEN realizes she just liked the idea of having sex with him but doesn’t really want to. And it’s treated like “oh, well she didn’t go through with it, so it wasn’t really cheating and she doesn’t need to discuss it with her husband when they do work things out later.” UM. Oral is still cheating?? That was not okay??
So yeah. Stuff like that. AND they barely discuss the books in the book club; I wanted the books to be a bigger part of the story.
I’d say the story is fine and intriguing enough, but it was not my cup of tea. I think the author and I have very different worldviews.
And the part that really bothered me (spoiler): one of the women goes as far as like oral sex with this dude, despite having a husband who loves her, and THEN realizes she just liked the idea of having sex with him but doesn’t really want to. And it’s treated like “oh, well she didn’t go through with it, so it wasn’t really cheating and she doesn’t need to discuss it with her husband when they do work things out later.” UM. Oral is still cheating?? That was not okay??
So yeah. Stuff like that. AND they barely discuss the books in the book club; I wanted the books to be a bigger part of the story.
I’d say the story is fine and intriguing enough, but it was not my cup of tea. I think the author and I have very different worldviews.