Helpful Score: 1
After reading Shriver's We Need to Talk About KEvin, I was highly disappointed in this book.
I did not connect at all with any of the characters. They all came across as spoiled, immature, selfish upper class adults who should know better. They held a digusting contempt for their dead parents. The first half of the book seemed like a scathing critical judgment against their mother. Quite frankly, it made me mad, but I contineud through the book. Not once did any of the characters show grief or sadness over the death of their parents. Instead it seemed as if they were relived and glad that their parents were gone.
I was also very confused about the sexual chemistry between Corlis and her two brothers. She made several references to jealousy of not being able to sleep with her brother. The referene to the mother rubbing it in that Corlis could not sleep with her father was also disturbing.
Overall, I disliked this book simply based on the characters. It was not a realistic picture of even the most dysfunctional family.
I did not connect at all with any of the characters. They all came across as spoiled, immature, selfish upper class adults who should know better. They held a digusting contempt for their dead parents. The first half of the book seemed like a scathing critical judgment against their mother. Quite frankly, it made me mad, but I contineud through the book. Not once did any of the characters show grief or sadness over the death of their parents. Instead it seemed as if they were relived and glad that their parents were gone.
I was also very confused about the sexual chemistry between Corlis and her two brothers. She made several references to jealousy of not being able to sleep with her brother. The referene to the mother rubbing it in that Corlis could not sleep with her father was also disturbing.
Overall, I disliked this book simply based on the characters. It was not a realistic picture of even the most dysfunctional family.
