Every Day Is Mother's Day

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Summary: A Brilliantly Creepy Book
Review: Don't be misled by the title: Every Day Is Mother's Day isn't an Erma Bombek type look at motherhood or a feminist polemic--it's the best "ghost story" I've ever read. It's sad, funny, macabre, and disturbing. I've read only one other book (Fludd) by this author so far, but she's already near the top of my list of favorite writers--maybe she'll be on yours, too.

Rating:
Summary: A Brilliantly Creepy Book
Review: Don't be misled by the title: Every Day Is Mother's Day isn't an Erma Bombek type look at motherhood or a feminist polemic--it's the best "ghost story" I've ever read. It's sad, funny, macabre, and disturbing. I've read only one other book (Fludd) by this author so far, but she's already near the top of my list of favorite writers--maybe she'll be on yours, too.

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Summary: Evil Among US
Review: Hilary Mantel is one of a kind. She is inconcerned with surfaces and deals with the subconscious activity of the forces of Good and Evil, both of our own devising and of other realms of authority entirely. EVERY DAY IS MOTHER'S DAY is a story of incremental evil and madness loosed on a selectively perceiving world, the activity of the truly wicked being obscured by the preconceptions and the predilections of those who, sidelong and reluctant, observe it. One little horror engenders another, each larger than the last, until chaos is unleashed and, still, unappreciated for what it is, is embraced by those who are certain to become its next victims. This is a novel of real terror, and part of the horror is that it will make you laugh.

Rating:
Summary: Very Disappointing!
Review: This is not the worst book I've ever read, but it is very close! It had potential to be a good read, but lacked in many key areas. The characters were fairly interesting and decently developed individually, but the outcome of all their interaction was not develped nearly enough. The entanglment of the characters had good plot potential, but ended up being VERY anticlimactic. I felt like the book was unfinished and probably needed at least another hundred pages or so to round out the characters and their situations. It even felt as if it was published exactly as the first draft was written, without any content editing, rewriting or further plot development. Every Day is Mother's Day is a book that had promise, but fell quite short of it's potential.