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A review by mandykool
Ghost Mother by Kelly Dwyer
3.0
I want to start this review with all the trigger warnings for child loss, suicide, infertility, mental illness, and more. This book delved into those topics and there were times I wasn’t sure where it was going or if it was doing a good job.
It’s unsettling to be 100 percent clear. I am waffling between a 3 or 4, but to be honest, this book hit a lot of my trauma triggers and that’s a part where for me, this one can’t be a five or a favorite.
Literally, Lilly is me if I wasn’t medicated and I found myself sympathizing with Jack far too often. Unmedicated, I’ve done similar things to my husband that Lilly does in here. And she’s an unlikable character who never really redeems herself. She’s unwilling to help herself mentally and that’s where I struggle.
I didn’t feel as hard for the past ghost story and I saw the reveals of what really happened coming from a mile away.
I feel like my review is harsh, but ultimately, this was a creepy haunted house book with an extremely delusional, unreliable narrator. She had so much PTSD and untreated mental illness that it took me away from the story, but it’s a well written, entertaining, well plotted book. As long as you can look past Lilly being an awful human with no redeemable qualities.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced audio copy of this book. The audio narrator is fantastic.
It’s unsettling to be 100 percent clear. I am waffling between a 3 or 4, but to be honest, this book hit a lot of my trauma triggers and that’s a part where for me, this one can’t be a five or a favorite.
Literally, Lilly is me if I wasn’t medicated and I found myself sympathizing with Jack far too often. Unmedicated, I’ve done similar things to my husband that Lilly does in here. And she’s an unlikable character who never really redeems herself. She’s unwilling to help herself mentally and that’s where I struggle.
I didn’t feel as hard for the past ghost story and I saw the reveals of what really happened coming from a mile away.
I feel like my review is harsh, but ultimately, this was a creepy haunted house book with an extremely delusional, unreliable narrator. She had so much PTSD and untreated mental illness that it took me away from the story, but it’s a well written, entertaining, well plotted book. As long as you can look past Lilly being an awful human with no redeemable qualities.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced audio copy of this book. The audio narrator is fantastic.