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No-Kids Club, The (2014)

by Talli Roland(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1491504838 (ISBN13: 9781491504833)

languge

English

genre

Fiction

publisher

Brilliance Audio

review 1: Goodreads is pretty sure I want to read this book. I'm pretty sure I'll hate it. Allow me to summarize my plot predictions based on the description and a few short reviews:Three women form a club for being childfree! They all have different reasons for being childfree (one of which is actually being unwillingly CHILDLESS, which doesn't fucking count), and none of these reasons can be summarized in "Just doesn't fucking want kids." In the end, the workaholic will unexpectedly get pregnant! Instead of seeking out an abortion or adoptive parents, she comes to terms with the fact that she's definitely, 1000% going to be a parent, and realizes that that's what she really wanted all along! The No-Kids Club is disbanded.I'd love to read an early review by another childfree person... more. Because something tells me "The No-Kids Club" will have nothing to do with my actual, real-life, We Go Out On Weekday Nights Because We Don't Need To Find Babysitters Club.
review 2: I had never read any of Talli Roland’s books before, but when she contacted me via twitter asking if I would like to review her new book, I decided having read the blurb I would enjoy it. Clare is almost forty, child free but in a relationship with Edward. Clare has no desire to want children, Edward on the other hand does, and with all her friends talking about babies and biological clocks Clare needs a break. She decides to set up The No Kids Club, for others like her, who do not want to have children. To begin with Clare is thrilled that she has two members in her No Kids Club, however it is soon apparent they are there for different reasons than Clare. Anna is happily married, she is a housewife and children do not enter her and her husband’s lives. Poppy is a primary school teacher and has longed to have children with her husband Alistair, unfortunately they haven’t been able to conceive naturally and have just been through their fourth round of IVF. I feel that many people will be able to relate to this book, those who haven’t wanted children and those who can’t. Regardless of reasons behind why you haven’t got children this club has bought these women together. I feel that sometimes it is a bit of a taboo for women to suggest they don’t want children, however it today’s society I think it is becoming more common. IT is nice that this has been addressed in this book and also that you shouldn’t tar a woman with the same brush for not having children, as you have no idea the reason why they don’t. I enjoyed the style it was written in, in that each chapter we visited another character. I enjoyed reading about all the characters in the book; however I feel that Clare and Poppy were the strongest two. Their personalities came across well in the book. I felt the struggle that Poppy was going through and at times confusion from Clare. I also liked the mystery surrounding Nicholas; I did feel though this could have been extended a little longer. I enjoyed the fact that all the characters entered The No Kids Club thinking certain things; however they all got a lot more out of it than what they expected. I found this to be a very quick read and kept my interest throughout. I will now be getting hold of other books by Roland. I would like to thank Talli for sending me this in exchange for an honest review. less

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