The Whispers
By Ashley Audrain
323 pages
What’s it about?
This novel centers around four couples living in an affluent neighborhood in any city in the U.S. The couples are all married. Two of the couples have school age children, a third struggles with infertility, and one couple is much older. When Xavier (the 10-year-old son of one of the couples) falls from a third floor window and ends up on life-support, there are many questions to be answered. What exactly is going on in this neighborhood and how did Xavier fall?What did it make me think about?
Motherhood.Should I read it?
So this latest book from the author of “The Push” is a page turner for sure- but it just got to be a little too much for me. Each character was unlikable in their own unique way and they all had SO many issues. I am so glad I did not live in this neighborhood when my kids were small! If you really like a thriller with lots of twists then you will enjoy this novel. It just missed for me.Quote-
“But these mothers are all busy, she knows. Too much going on and yet nothing going on at all, creating urgency where there is none, rushing their lives away. They don’t know how to just be. They make no time to think about what’s right there in front of them.”What’s it about?
This novel centers around four couples living in an affluent neighborhood in any city in the U.S. The couples are all married. Two of the couples have school age children, a third struggles with infertility, and one couple is much older. When Xavier (the 10-year-old son of one of the couples) falls from a third floor window and ends up on life-support, there are many questions to be answered. What exactly is going on in this neighborhood and how did Xavier fall?
What did it make me think about?
Motherhood.
Should I read it?
So this latest book from the author of “The Push” is a page turner for sure- but it just got to be a little too much for me. Each character was unlikable in their own unique way and they all had SO many issues. I am so glad I did not live in this neighborhood when my kids were small! If you really like a thriller with lots of twists then you will enjoy this novel. It just missed for me.
Quote-
“But these mothers are all busy, she knows. Too much going on and yet nothing going on at all, creating urgency where there is none, rushing their lives away. They don’t know how to just be. They make no time to think about what’s right there in front of them.”
