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Book Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin

We Need to Talk About Kevin
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Helpful Score: 1


Great title. Great idea for a book--the mother of a Columbine-style murderer writes a series of letters to the boy's father. I nearly gave up on this about 125 pages in, when the main character goes on and on about how much she hates her enormous new "dream home" in Nyack, New York. But I'm glad I stuck with it. You'd think that a book that almost immediately reveals a mass murder couldn't build any suspense, but the author manages to do just that. She also throws in some plot twists that I should have seen coming but didn't.