I think Shriver did a very good job of making you invested in the story, slowly dragging you in, leaving breadcrumbs of information which led to the culmination towards the end.ĭefinitely recommend reading this and after that, watch the movie, because it’s also pretty great.We Need to Talk About Kevin is based on the book by Lionel Schriver which, through a series of detailed letters, looks at life through Eva Khatchadourian's eyes as she deals with the aftermath of a school shooting where her teenage son Kevin was the shooter. The writing is also spot on, so rich and one of those show not tell kinds of writing, which I always appreciate. It was so intricate and had so many layers, the most complex kind of love-hate relationship you can find, the push and pull of it was so well portrayed. I never expected that since I watched the movie, which was great, but there wasn’t exploration of their dynamic that was so deep. I think that was done really well.Īlso the relationship between Eva and Kevin is so complex.
That was one of the brightest points of this novel for me. And so she was torn with this sense of duty and her own reservations of having children. She struggles a lot with her feelings toward having kids, and her aptness (or lack of) for being a mother. It’s not in your face, preachy feminism, but it is indisputably there. Was Kevin always like this? Was he born this way? Or is it all Eva’s fault? Was she a bad mother?Įva is such a poster girl for feminism without her being a poster girl for feminism, if that makes sense. nurture was perfectly intervowen into the story. The biggest debate of psychology, the debate of nature vs. I find that her recounting of her son’s life as a way of her coping with the thing that happend was masterfully done.
But, she is a very relatable one, and I was with her and rooting for her and felt sorry for her throughout the novel. I personally don’t like Eva, I don’t think that she is a likable character. I really love how this novel was handled. And it’s great that I forgot some of the details, which allowed them to make a full blown impact on me. I watched the movie ages ago, and wanted to read the book ever since.
This is one of those books that will sit with you, linger in your thoughts even for a while after you’re done with it.
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