Reviews
I thought there were a lot of interesting and eye-catching eyes, but I fear I didn’t understand everyone and everything. Maybe the point was not that this was the experience of a normal woman, but rather a glimpse into different versions of women and their experiences with relationships viewed through one perspective since the loneliest woman in this book was the mother with a husband living a “normal life.”
I fear I’m much pickier with books than movies and I’m not entirely sure why. Maybe because a movie seems like it takes a village while books are mostly the work of one individual so it’s more of a measurement of them.
Men are always the issue
I understand now why my friend thinks I’d like this book. It took me so long to finish it because I cannot bear the protagonist’s life decisions. I would not have been her friend, let alone reading her journal. Her thoughts were insufferable. Until the second half of the book, where she saw things perhaps finally for what they are. The sense of stoic of the second half matches my pace a lot more, and I finished the rest in one sitting. I did not enjoy the story, but I appreciate the writing. It effectively annoyed me through the depictions of the characters. Things don’t work out. What’s new?
I found it a really intriguing book but because we are told what was going to happen at the end at the start I found the ending to be quite anticlimactic.
alberto deserved the shot.
I don't know why this is described as a feminist horror story because: 1. I did not think it was particularly feminist. The protagonist does not shoot her husband to liberate herself in any way. Their marriage was one of convenience, and one she felt she had to walk into because of society's expectations, she even believed she loved him. But he wasn't abusive, he was just uninterested. 2. it had no horror in it. It is quite mundane and someone being murdered is not enough to classify something as horror. I think the writer is very talented and the picture of an unhappy marriage is something she was trying to convey, but ultimately, starting with the wife shooting the husband felt like a gimmick, and most of the book was boring to get through, with no worthy pay off at the end.
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