Helpful Score: 2
I was awed, shocked, and horrified by We Need to Talk About Kevin. The book reads as letters from a mother to her former husband. She recalls events of her life that led her to believe to believe that her child, who recently killed several classmates in a violent and inhumane manner, was evil from the beginning.
This book is extremely difficult to read as you hear account after account of a mother who never really "liked" her son. You hear about her selfishness through her pregnancy with him, her jealousy of the relationship of father and son, and her favortism for her daughter. You questoin her sanity and wonder if perhaps she is too biased against her son, but at the same time the evidence points to her recount of the stories. You recoil is disgust as she sympathizes and jokes coarsely with her incarcerated son, wondering how you would react were you in the same situation.
The final chapters of the book are chilling. They leave you gasping for breath and send chills through your blood. It's been over 2 months since I finished this book, and even as I write about it now, my heart still skips and my stomach still turns to just recount the emotionalism this book awakened in me. I loved it and I hated it, but I could not put it down.
This book is extremely difficult to read as you hear account after account of a mother who never really "liked" her son. You hear about her selfishness through her pregnancy with him, her jealousy of the relationship of father and son, and her favortism for her daughter. You questoin her sanity and wonder if perhaps she is too biased against her son, but at the same time the evidence points to her recount of the stories. You recoil is disgust as she sympathizes and jokes coarsely with her incarcerated son, wondering how you would react were you in the same situation.
The final chapters of the book are chilling. They leave you gasping for breath and send chills through your blood. It's been over 2 months since I finished this book, and even as I write about it now, my heart still skips and my stomach still turns to just recount the emotionalism this book awakened in me. I loved it and I hated it, but I could not put it down.
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