A review by mmccombs
We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

dark sad tense slow-paced

2.5

What a heavy and kind of obnoxious book! I did enjoy the mood and the way it was organized, but it was just entirely too long. It felt like a slog to get through, I did not need Eva’s opinions on literally everything, we know she’s kind of the worst so let’s keep it moving! Lots of r-words and racist and homophobic and fatphobic things in this book, too. Which again, Eva and her family are not good people so all of those things made that more obvious, but after a while it just got old.  I think the heart of this story is a compelling one, but I just didn’t care for much of the execution.
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