Miriam Knight

Boring and messily written. The author tried using the technique of not putting quotations around the dialog, which if used properly can be really immersive and interesting, but in this book it made it confusing to read and feel really flat and unexpresive. Many of the sentences made zero sense, like this book wasn't proofread at all. It reminded me of reading a middle schooler's fantasy short story. The themes of feminism, new motherhood, and a marriage that isn't going how expected had the potential to be intriguing and powerful, but felt more like the author had read a bunch of SJW stuff online and just repeated what she heard over and over again. I read about halfway through the book only out of curiosity of if it would get better or not- and it didn't, so I started flipping to random pages and no matter what page I landed on it was just a repetition of the exact same inner thoughts of the protagonist. I could tell that the story was trying to show a woman's transformation of accepting herself and her newly found motherhood while also rejecting society's expectations of her, but it was way too on the nose and by the end of the book the main character had not changed at all, besides becoming more narcissistic. It's not worth the time. You can get the same thing out of reading a seventh graders creative writing assignment.