Review: Nosotros Take Away To Verbalize Nigh Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin yesteryear Lionel Shriver
My rating: 3 of five stars

Finally finished! This mass was FANTASTIC yesteryear the destination but hence incredibly irksome for such a long time. I want similar crazy this had a amend start 2/3 but it actually didn't larn cracking until the lastly 100 pages or so. The destination was heartbreaking together with cathartic equally nosotros uncovering out just what Kevin did together with how he did it. Read it, but live prepared to abhor a skillful chunk of it.

7/30/2012 - OK here's the existent review later on I've had some fourth dimension to digest. There are spoilers inward this post.

It took me FOUR MONTHS to complete this book. That is how badly I hated the start 300 pages. I was determined, later on having it sit down on my desk for hence long amongst people holler for me "Oh what's this about? It looks hence interesting!" that I was going to complete it, come upward hell or high water. And I finally did, lastly night, equally I lay inward bed determined to larn this mass OFF of my "Currently Reading" list.



Eva comes off equally spoiled, immature, narcissistic, together with wholly absorbed inward her ain perfect life. When Kevin comes along, she sees him equally a derailment rather than a continuation. In forthwith rejecting her son, her boy inward plow rejects her. She states it the reverse means at the end, but from her portrayal when she describes the birth, she clearly states that she feels absolutely zippo for this child, together with inward plow he spurns her. The residue of his life is a ability fighting - he wants her to know that he knows she hates him, together with he hates her inward turn.

The start 1/4 of this mass was spent talking close how much Eva together with Kevin hated each other, how much her married adult man loved Kevin to the betoken of blindness, together with how much Kevin despised his father. After 300 pages of this, I had had enough. Thank God that's when it finally started to larn interesting. When Eva starts talking close what just Kevin Did, together with who just he killed, together with how, together with reveals the major plot twist (that, to live honest, I did non encounter coming) that explains WHY she is writing all these damned letters, it felt similar a punch inward the gut. THAT is how I wanted to experience for 300 pages. THAT is how I should accept been made to experience at to the lowest degree 150 pages sooner.

The ending makes this book. It's similar the moving-picture present Hancock - the entire moving-picture present was a giant stinking slice of crap. And hence yous larn to the infirmary scene at the end, together with yous experience similar your middle is beingness ripped out of you, your breadbasket is inward knots, together with yous simply desire to scream. THAT is what this mass is like. You desire it to live over, together with hence of a abrupt the climax happens, together with hence it's actually over. I could accept used the climax earlier. That would accept made it an AMAZING book, non simply a skillful one.

I've passed this on to the adjacent reader, together with promise she volition taste it to a greater extent than than I did. Finishing this mass was similar H2O torture - getting ane drip of intensity at regular intervals. But zippo HAPPENED until the end, together with fifty-fifty though it had happened inward the past, fifty-fifty though it was all beingness rehashed inward letters to a dead person, it is activeness all the same. It FINALLY fulfilled its purpose, together with hence it stops.

I'm left all the same thinking close Kevin, close everyone Kevin destroyed, close his confession to his woman bring upward at the destination that he doesn't know why he did it anymore, close the fact that these letters Eva has been writing this whole fourth dimension are to a dead man. I don't know how to feel, really, except that it wasn't quite worth it to strain myself to read it, but hence again, perchance it was.

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