I am a giant nerd, and love nothing more than a good book.
So when choosing this one, a reliable author outweighed the melancholy subject.
However, just finishing it now, I feel extremely disappointed and angry.
Is it the topic I found so confronting? A mother who wishes she aborted her child due to a medical issue?
Is it that I feel it is a bit too close to home. Not medically of course, but a mother not 'wanting' her child.
Is it the memories of the court case I had resurfacing?
The children being dragged through it all and seeing their parents in a different light.
Maybe the broken family that happens way too often these days.
The thought terrifies me of the same thing happening one day to my unborn children.
Or is it simply because the author makes you struggle through the whole thing, feeling helpless for this little angle - and then kills her off anyway because of something completely random and unexpected.
Needless to say, I feel annoyed and frustrated after 500 pages.
Not a waste of time or read, but certainly enough not to pick up the same 'reliable author' for a little while.
Just to restore my faith in my favourite thing to do.
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