Lionel Shriver, We Need To Talk About Kevin Review

Overall Rating

Brilliant and compelling page-turner of a book. Really makes you think about the issues as the book is ambivalent towards the subject matter and no firm conclusions are drawn.

I could not put this book down. I loved the narrative style of the story being told through the eyes of the mother. Her brutal honesty about her feelings towards motherhood will be shocking to some (but a relief to others).

As the book progresses and her emotional position deteriorates, I became aware that her narrative may not be reliable and this add another dimension to the book.

Although you know from quite early in the book the crime that the son commits, there is a real and shocking twist at the end that blew me away.

This is one of those books that stays with you long after you read the last page.