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A review by hauntedantiqueshop
What Kind of Mother by Clay McLeod Chapman
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Can’t even lie, they really had me in the first half of this book. There’s some really good horror imagery in this, I really loved the marine life aspects. I totally get why it’d be classified as a southern gothic folk horror and it does work for a while but it gets overshadowed (for me at least) by alternating unreliable prospectives, the weird focus on motherhood instead of parenthood when there are multiple parents in the story, and then that anticlimactic ending.
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Gore, Kidnapping, Grief, and Death of parent
Moderate: Miscarriage and Suicide
Minor: Animal death, Toxic relationship, Blood, Murder, Pregnancy, and Abandonment