Where I End by Sophie White | Horror Fiction Review
This was beautifully written but it wasn't meant for me.
I honestly don't know how to rate this one, so I'll fall in the middle with a 3. The descriptions are often beautifully written, nearly poetic but the content is incredibly cruel and difficult to read, and it left me feeling sick to my stomach in the worst way.
There are some major things here that no one is talking about that bothered me throughout the story. Especially if you are disabled, care for someone who is disabled, have an ailing parent or have empathy for those who need help. The horror in this one is 100% the people. Terrible, hateful, selfish and broken people taking out their sadness/frustration/evilness on weaker people. I don't know, maybe if I read this book at a different point in time my feelings would've been different, but I read it now when things are looking pretty bleak, and too many are selfish and I kind of wish I hadn't.
Be warned, if you need to be.
Content Warning below.
Click away if you don't want to know . . .
The main character thinks of her disabled mother as a bed-thing, basically a non-person, a burden and is extremely hateful and cruel and harmful towards her mother and an innocent baby, there are also mentions of multiple rapes.
Final Rating: ⭐⭐⭐
Publisher Plot Synopsis
At night, my mother creaks. The house creaks along with her. Sometimes in the morning we find her in places. We never see her move. We just come upon her.
Aoileann is cursed. She has no friends, never gone to school. She has never left this windswept craggy isle off the coast of Ireland.
Her mother is cursed: a silent wreck Aoileann calls the “bed-thing.” Alongside her grandmother, Aoileann’s days are an endless monotony of feeding, changing, and caring for the bed-thing.
Their island seems cursed, whispering secrets only Aoileann hears. Then Rachel, a vivacious artist from the mainland, arrives with her colicky newborn. Rachel arouses yearnings Aoileann cannot fully comprehend. Soon, the unfolding of her mother’s secret tragedy and Aoileann’s pursuit of her own dark desires are both destined to unleash a maelstrom upon all three of their lives.
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Pretty sure I won't be checking this one out!
ReplyDeleteProbably for the best. It made me very sad.
DeleteOk, this probably isn't for me either. It sounds so depressing😬
ReplyDeleteIt really was.
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