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The Hawthorne School
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Lilibet Bombshell's review
bookshelves: advanced-reader-copies, cozy-mystery, psychiatric-aspect-but-not-genre, thriller-novels
Dec 05, 2021
bookshelves: advanced-reader-copies, cozy-mystery, psychiatric-aspect-but-not-genre, thriller-novels
Real Rating: 3.5 Stars
While this book wasn’t full of surprises, it was charismatic and full of ambience. What it lacked for in originality, it made up for in gothic mystery and all-too-human emotion.
I loved the psychological aspects of this book. I loved the pointed commentary on private schooling versus public schooling and the importance of literacy. As the mother of two neurodivergent children, I deeply identified with Claudia (the FMC) and her struggle to be the best mother she could be to her child (even though I was at a loss as to why it seemed she hadn’t ever taken him to see a pediatrician or a child psychiatrist). And I loved the compelling, cultish atmosphere of The Hawthorne School and its denizens.
I just wished it had been less predictable.
While this book wasn’t full of surprises, it was charismatic and full of ambience. What it lacked for in originality, it made up for in gothic mystery and all-too-human emotion.
I loved the psychological aspects of this book. I loved the pointed commentary on private schooling versus public schooling and the importance of literacy. As the mother of two neurodivergent children, I deeply identified with Claudia (the FMC) and her struggle to be the best mother she could be to her child (even though I was at a loss as to why it seemed she hadn’t ever taken him to see a pediatrician or a child psychiatrist). And I loved the compelling, cultish atmosphere of The Hawthorne School and its denizens.
I just wished it had been less predictable.
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Reading Progress
December 1, 2021
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Started Reading
December 1, 2021
– Shelved
December 1, 2021
– Shelved as:
advanced-reader-copies
December 5, 2021
– Shelved as:
cozy-mystery
December 5, 2021
– Shelved as:
psychiatric-aspect-but-not-genre
December 5, 2021
– Shelved as:
thriller-novels
December 5, 2021
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Finished Reading