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The repetetive use of the word 'judder' and its varying forms was bothersome but far worse was the main character of Jenny and how everything in her story reads as if she's speaking to her three year old daughter, Gracie. There were no breaks of Jenny's inner dialogue reverting back to her own thoughts (Jenny is telling the story from first person but seemingly only to her young daughter, which is pointed out often) so it was very jarring to read her description of having sex as if it was being told to her very young child. Jenny related the entire graphic description of her sexual encounter as it was happening and in the middle of sex stated that she recalled losing her virginity and then of 'giving birth to you, my love" as if telling her child about it, all while oral sex is being performed on her. It was very, very off-putting. Jen also has very unkind thoughts of Gracie's father and since so many paragraphs include Jenny's term of endearment for little Gracie ("my love") it was very difficult to get into the story since it seemed like highly inappropriate dialogue to be having with a toddler! I am only partway through the book but for this reason I may be unable to finish it. I think it was a very poor choice for the author to give the character's voice an autobiographical feel but with the character's three year old child as the seemingly only intended audience. It comes across as disturbing, inappropriate, and dare I say? Juddering.


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From the beginning, the narrator had the sick self-absorption of all those Gone Girl mentally unbalanced British unreliable narrator types. Add to that, the unhealthy total worshipping of Gracie, and you have a book I wanted to get away from, fast. From the first moment we meet Matt, there is a creepy vibe that never lets up. Maybe the narrator is clueless, but I doubt any self- respecting reader fell for his stories and lies. In the immortal words of Roberto Duran, “No Mas,”
If you are a mother or a grandmother, I do not know how you could ever start to read this novel and not be compelled to finish it. I just happen to have a 3 year old granddaughter who I love so very much. Maybe that is another reason why I often needed tissues while reading this book... I liked this author's style...I felt her descriptions and wordings flowed well throughout the book. Her choice of words evoked strong emotions in me. There were some good uses of foreshadowing, which I will not mention here so as to not spoil anything for the reader. The one thing I questioned though was the "big words" and mature sentences that Gracie used as a three year old... I know Gracie was close to four, but unless she was truly a gifted child, I do not know of any normal 3 year old that speaks in such a manner. However, it was not enough of a distraction to take away from the story. I really liked this book and definitely recommend it.
This book went on way too long. I found it very upsetting and not my cup of tea. The characters weren’t well defined which made the book a lot less interesting. I wanted more info about the marriage, no reason given for the split.
Let me start with one positive thought, since I'll bash this with no mercy afterwards. If you can ignore the religious cliches and hundreds of pages of "I love yous," gushing like geysers on every page, there really is a suspenseful mystery underneath it all. As such, I couldn't put the book down, painful as it was, simply to get to the end and see why I wasted my time. But even that requires a big stretch of the imagination. Are we to believe that a woman dating a doctor for all that time would not get suspicious of a man with no friends or family that she can see, who never invites her to his home, never takes her to his work, and can in fact never be reached at work? (She was even told there is no doctor by that name, duh.) For her stupidity alone I have zero empathy for the character Jenny. She comes across as an airhead who never thinks about anything in any depth, believes just about anything, and has no interests in her life beyond her devotion to her child. No wonder her husband ran for his life. Sorry if I offend, but I really wanted her daughter to die at the end because I couldn't stand Jenny any longer. As for the religious mumb-jumbo, couldn't the author think of something a little more interesting than dying and seeing a bright light and being greeted by a kind old man? Seriously? It terrifies me beyond all else that so many people can fall for this excuse of a novel and give it good reviews. It could have stood on its own as a second-rate mystery without St. Michael & company. Oh, and I agree with all who raised the issue of writing in second person to her daughter. I suppose the author thought it very creative. It's painful to read and often jarring (as in the sex scene). Trash at its worst.
As a mother I was sickened by Jennifer's obsessive behavior with her daughter. This was not love! Jennifer was a deeply flawed character who created chaos around her. This book did not bring me to tears but rather nausea. Very sad in a sick way. I could not recommend this book.
And then I juddered with disgust at the egregious overuse of the word “juddered.” It’s as if the author learned one “big” word and then had to use it — over, and over, and over — throughout this tiresome story of this ignorant mother and the rest of the one-dimensional characters in this tedious book. I juddered with relief as I skipped to the end, when the cardboard characters played out their tiresome ends and the story finally came to a juddering conclusion. Don’t waste your ninety-nine cents.
The repetetive use of the word 'judder' and its varying forms was bothersome but far worse was the main character of Jenny and how everything in her story reads as if she's speaking to her three year old daughter, Gracie. There were no breaks of Jenny's inner dialogue reverting back to her own thoughts (Jenny is telling the story from first person but seemingly only to her young daughter, which is pointed out often) so it was very jarring to read her description of having sex as if it was being told to her very young child. Jenny related the entire graphic description of her sexual encounter as it was happening and in the middle of sex stated that she recalled losing her virginity and then of 'giving birth to you, my love" as if telling her child about it, all while oral sex is being performed on her. It was very, very off-putting. Jen also has very unkind thoughts of Gracie's father and since so many paragraphs include Jenny's term of endearment for little Gracie ("my love") it was very difficult to get into the story since it seemed like highly inappropriate dialogue to be having with a toddler! I am only partway through the book but for this reason I may be unable to finish it. I think it was a very poor choice for the author to give the character's voice an autobiographical feel but with the character's three year old child as the seemingly only intended audience. It comes across as disturbing, inappropriate, and dare I say? Juddering.