A review by bookishfables
The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides
1.0
1.5/5 stars>
I generally do not give books 1 star but?? this??
After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.
Even tho I went into this with very low expectations, thanks to Twitter for telling me about it lol. But I was still somehow so mad at the ending? The story was so bland, to begin with, and they somehow managed to make it 10X worse with that ending. Going into it I knew the ending was weird so I kept making up the most bizarre theories in my head as to how it would end and somehow the ending was even worse than this!?!?!
As someone who really liked the plot of The Silent Patient (gave it a solid 4 stars), this was such a fucking letdown. Do yourself a favor and don't read this book. Save your time and energy, please.
Don’t glorify the events of your life and try to give them meaning. There is no meaning. Life means nothing. Death means nothing. But she didn’t always think that way.
Book Trigger Warnings- death of a loved one, death of a parent, parental abandonment, drowning, abusive parent, child abuse, death of a pet, sexual assault, drug addiction, alcohol, gore, negative stereotypes of people with mental illness, self-harm, suicidal ideation, stalking, grief
I generally do not give books 1 star but?? this??
After all, everyone’s entitled to be the hero of their own story. So I must be permitted to be the hero of mine. Even though I’m not. I’m the villain.
Even tho I went into this with very low expectations, thanks to Twitter for telling me about it lol. But I was still somehow so mad at the ending? The story was so bland, to begin with, and they somehow managed to make it 10X worse with that ending. Going into it I knew the ending was weird so I kept making up the most bizarre theories in my head as to how it would end
Spoiler
(from Henry the patient gone rogue to Fred the nerdy guy using that as a disguise while actually secretly trying to befriend the main character)As someone who really liked the plot of The Silent Patient (gave it a solid 4 stars), this was such a fucking letdown. Do yourself a favor and don't read this book. Save your time and energy, please.
Don’t glorify the events of your life and try to give them meaning. There is no meaning. Life means nothing. Death means nothing. But she didn’t always think that way.
Book Trigger Warnings- death of a loved one, death of a parent, parental abandonment, drowning, abusive parent, child abuse, death of a pet, sexual assault, drug addiction, alcohol, gore, negative stereotypes of people with mental illness, self-harm, suicidal ideation, stalking, grief