panUgh, I love everything else Chelsea Bieker has ever written but nothing about this book landed for me. I‘m biased but the motherhood theme was boring, the Portland references made me roll my eyes (born and raised in the same neighborhood the book is based), and the ending wasn‘t surprising but so obvious from the moment the character was introduced. I preordered the book (vs waiting for it at the library) and I‘m not keeping it.
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This complex story of violence and motherhood feels alive, beating with the pulse of feminine rage. The tense atmosphere is almost tangible and Clove‘s character could walk off the page. I thought it skillfully balanced intrigue with substance and emotion. There‘s nothing like a mad woman… 🎧
pickAll the most intense emotions from beginning to end. You are feeling everything as you read word after word after word. It was a hard read, though, subject matter wise. I was captivated in the feelings. Every single one of them.
pickClove has a lovely spouse and 2 young children. When weaning her youngest, she attributes her strange feelings to cessation of the familiar hormones. Then a letter arrives from her mom (in prison: how did her mom find her?) and Clove‘s usually suppressed past revisits her now-simple life…
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