The Need
Ratings25
Average rating2.9
The story has solid bones and Molly/Moll is interesting enough that it could have been a great book. The child however, the frigging child, Viv, she would have driven me over the edge too and the constant mentions of breastfeeding that were just disturbing made the reading experience always slightly unpleasant.
Wild, unsettling, gorgeously written litfic as horror as domestic sci-fi.
How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?
Not what I had in my head when i read the book description. That ending left me like ermmm just another day in mom hood face palm i was annoyed by the kids...I loved the parallels piece of it that was interesting but it was mainly about a mom complaining about being a said mom and how hard it is having two kids...Some may like this but I can't give in my mind above 1-2 stars for this one. Could have been cut shorter and really didn't need to be as long as it was and we don't need to talk so much about the breastfeeding piece..seriously... i was really turned off to that but hey you do you moms just not something I enjoy reading about in what should be a thriller book, which the first part was the only suspenseful piece the other 4 parts ugh....nope missed that mark badly. I definitely will not be picking this up again. Glad I got access to this on libby and didn't waste money buying the book.
It was fine.
I want feeling this book. I was intrigued by the plot, but it grew tedious quickly. And the children didn't feel completely natural to me. I wanted more weird and less mundanity. I feel like the book got away from the writer and ended up with less depth than it should have.