Monday, November 4, 2019

Wild Game - My Mother, Her Lover and Me by Adrienne Brodeur

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4 Stars

Soooooooooooooooooooooo apparently this is a thing . . . . .



Which of course I didn’t know about but somehow was well-prepared for anyway due to my lack of timely reviewing. Here’s a selection that I read on September 1st and never wrote imaged up.

Full disclosure: I was offered an advanced copy of Wild Game and took it as soon as I saw the comparison to . . . . .



I don't think I'll ever stop doubting why Average Joes feel their story is one to be told, – especially ones like The Glass Castle or this that air alllllllllllllllllllllll of the family’s dirty laundry to the world. I automatically assume it’s due to the fact that . . . . .



That being said, I totally get why a publishing house would pick up this story because I pretty much looked like this while I was reading it . . . .



There’s just something about the trainwreck factor that sucks me right in. And the story here about a mother using her child as her confidante as she engages in a decades-long affair with her husband’s best friend????


Malabar (Barf, right? How could she not be a complete douche?) would have made for a great Real Housewife of Cape Code and could have seriously used a copy of the APA’s Textbook of Psychiatry . . . . .



4 Stars for the un-put-down-able factor.

ARC provided by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in exchange for an honest review.

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