January 2023 Book Club - The Push

Man this book was GREAT! The ending HAD me! I think/hope there will be a sequel!

 

I read this one a while back and loved it!!

 

Let’s talk about this one! What a fantastic psychological thriller!

I did the audiobook. I powered through it in 2 days. I couldn’t stop listening. The narration of the audiobook was great and I really liked the way the author used a lot of self talk and thinking out loud of the main character Blythe. I really felt like I was in her head.

the characters:
Blythe - main character
Etta - Blythe's grandmother
Cecelia - Blythe’s mother
Violet - Blythe’s daughter
Fox - Blythe’s husband

ok let me come back with my spoilers/ thoughts my iPad keyboard is skipping all over the place

 

The kindle version of this book is only 1.99 right now. I haven’t read it yet, but it looks like it could be a good one.

 

if you like psychological thrillers you wont be sorry

 

Spoiler

This book had me guessing the whole time. Is Violet the devil? Is Blythe as mentally ill as her mother and grandmother?

I was thinking something was off when Violet was a baby and Blythe wanted to do her writing and just let her cry for an hour at a time. Who would do that? But then when Violet was at the preschool and the teacher calls them in to tell them that Violet was bullying then I was back thinking oh this child has a problem. That was their chance right there to get some help and they brushed it off because Blythe was so worried about her getting kicked out of daycare.Then the child gets tripped on the jungle gym and no one sees it? And she pushes Sam into traffic and no one sees that either? And the whole thing with her wearing a wig and making friends with Fox's new wife? Now I'm back to thinking that Blythe has this mental illness and like her mother and grandmother maybe it manifests that they think they have these evil daughters. And they all have a history of marrying men that just want to smooth it over.

Then we come to near the end of the book which circles back to the beginning where Blythe is sitting in her car watching them through the window. And Violet pushes on the glass! And then the phonecall about Jet!!!

 

I saw someone say it was the next Gone Girl. If I hated that book with a passion will I hate this one?

 

Maybe I liked Gone Girl

 

Oh and one more thing, I read that this is this author’s first book. Wow! Can’t wait to see what else she comes up with.

 

I finished a week ago and forgot to come here to read the thread. Like many others, I read this in a weekend. It was too horrifying to spend longer on it. Interesting that you're so sure Karen. I lean the same way as you, but the ending was so abrupt, I still felt confused.

By the way, I'm trying out a different reading tracker instead of Goodreads. Storygraph. https://app.thestorygraph.com/ Is anyone else using it? I like that the focus is on book stats, but it's plain and a bit lonely. I liked the newsletters Goodreads sends regularly telling me what my friends are reading; I've gotten my next book from those newsletters many times.

 

Oh! I forgot to mention one of the coolest things about Storygraph is that they slurp your Goodreads data over to them. I haven't studied my results to see how well they did that, but from what I've seen so far, I think it worked fine. For the last couple of years, I've been making screenshots and copy-pasting my Goodreads reviews into my journal, but I might go back and do that for my older reviews before I leave Goodreads for good.

 

Hmm I am not on Goodreads. Should I go straight to Storygraph?