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Precise (2000)

by Rebecca Berto(Favorite Author)

3.42 of 5 Votes: 1

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review 1: Katie is a girl trying to come into her own even though she is already married with a daughter of her own. She finds out she's pregnant early in the story and the news changes everything for her. Her mother's cruelty is sprinkled like salt through this sometimes rough but beautifully written novella, and each time we see how far her mother Rochelle will go to tear Katie down and try to take over her grandchild's life, that salty flavor leaves a bitter taste in our mouths. This is very much a character driven story, written with a beautiful style that leans toward literary. Two of my favorite passages:"The essence of the sadness and loneliness has stayed with me, even if I know her words are shit. Like a bloodstain: scrub it out but the root of the stain isn't going. Not un... moreless you bleach it and then you lose the rest of the color.""Looking at my dad, the tension climbing up my chest releases and tears pool in my eyes, one, two, three, dribbling down my nose. His reaction is similar, though watered down. His eyes are red and he has a smile only a kid seems to have before they learn this black and white world has every awful imaginable shade of color."I'll admit that I'm a commercial fiction type of girl. I love plot heavy novels with steamy romance scenes offset with suspense, but Precise has some of that too, so the story held my attention. I especially loved the interaction with Katie and her mother, was angered by it, and my jaw dropped more than once at the things that monster of a mother would say:"It's too easy to overlook problems during pregnancy when you're stupid like you are."Rochelle was a real piece of work, but thankfully Katie's relationship with her husband Paul and her daughter Ella gave her hope to see that she wasn't worthless. They came across as real people and the dialogue was especially well done. I also enjoyed Liam's character, and having already read the blurb for Pulling Me Under, I'm really looking forward to the dynamics of Katie and Liam's relationship in light of what happens in the sequel. Their friendship was also written well, just a hint they could be more if the circumstances were right, but never crossing the line. Katie loved Paul wholly; there was never any doubt of that. I'm looking forward to the sequel, and I expect more jaw-dropping moments from Mother Dearest, but for me, I think those were the best parts. I'm also hoping for more romance in the sequel.
review 2: This book kept me interested for a while, but then I just got disgusted with Katie's spineless husband Paul. He needed to stand up and be a man. They both needed to break ties with the maternal grandmother and it needed to be Paul's responsibility to ensure that the grandmother left them alone. I also felt that Katie's male best friend Liam wasn't good for her either. Anyway, it became tedious reading episode after episode of Katie's mom being mean and no one doing anything about it. less

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