A review by briartherose
Be Mine by Laura Kasischke

2.0

This is one of the strangest books I've ever read. It's as if Louise Doughty's 'Apple Tree Yard' and Helen Walsh's 'The Lemon Grove' had a creepy, wayward child. It features themes from both of those books: adultery, revenge, murder, motherhood, ageing, sex. And yet it comes across as more gruesome, uncomfortable, and poorly written than either of them. It's not the worst book I've ever read, it has its good lines, but it certainly pushed the limits of my suspension of disbelief.