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A review by katv
I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins
5.0
4.5 stars
So I was intrigued by the description of this book and was curious why the rating was a bit low. I’m super happy I decided to read this anyways because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once I began, I read through the reviews and they were actually pretty divisive — either people LOVING it or LOATHING it.
This is a story about a mother who leaves her family in an effort to distance herself from that specific “identity” (as well as her role as a female and what is expected of her from her family, friends, society) in exploration of what those identities have meant to her and how they have impacted her throughout her life.
My only reason for -.5 stars is it wasn’t entirely clear to me how the letters throughout fit into the narrative. (It also took me far too long to realize they were presented in reverse order, I.e. 1971, 1970, 1969, etc.
So I was intrigued by the description of this book and was curious why the rating was a bit low. I’m super happy I decided to read this anyways because I thoroughly enjoyed it. Once I began, I read through the reviews and they were actually pretty divisive — either people LOVING it or LOATHING it.
This is a story about a mother who leaves her family in an effort to distance herself from that specific “identity” (as well as her role as a female and what is expected of her from her family, friends, society) in exploration of what those identities have meant to her and how they have impacted her throughout her life.
My only reason for -.5 stars is it wasn’t entirely clear to me how the letters throughout fit into the narrative. (It also took me far too long to realize they were presented in reverse order, I.e. 1971, 1970, 1969, etc.