
The Robber Bride
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Bernadette Dunne
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Margaret Atwood
From the best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments - one of Margaret Atwood’s most unforgettable characters lurks at the center of this intricate novel like a spider in a web. The glamorous, irresistible, unscrupulous Zenia is nothing less than a fairy-tale villain in the memories of her former friends.
Roz, Charis, and Tony - university classmates decades ago - were reunited at Zenia’s funeral and have met monthly for lunch ever since, obsessively retracing the destructive swath she once cut through their lives. A brilliantly inventive fabulist, Zenia had a talent for exploiting her friends’ weaknesses, wielding intimacy as a weapon and cheating them of money, time, sympathy, and men.
But one day, five years after her funeral, they are shocked to catch sight of Zenia: Even her death appears to have been yet another fiction. As the three women plot to confront their larger-than-life nemesis, Atwood proves herself a gleefully acute observer of the treacherous shoals of friendship, trust, desire, and power.
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Second Margaret Atwood
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Robber Bride seems as though it was written quickly. Grocery-store fiction; the newsprint pulp best-sellers found in cheap rows on wire shelves as you pass by on your way to the checkout counter. Entertaining, but not the way I prefer to spend money.
Good beach-read (though you’ll be sunburnt to finish this) bathtubbing reads (hope you have a gigantic water heater), big giant laugh-track mass-market checkout-from-your-long-stressful-day for a solid week sort of read. Fun, but too many parties night after night, with as many hangovers. Funny, life of said party at high points throughout the book, but followed by wee hours when one feels it’s time to go home.
I listened at high-octane mode; 1.5 & 2; fast track to complete the destination. My God! But go Boyce!
Entertaining, but loooooong
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BORED with her own novel?
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I enjoyed “seeing” the inner perspectives of each of the three women: Tony, Charis and Roz as they come in contact with the dark figure of Xenia.
There are so many memorable quotes from the text, but I especially love the one which addresses the male gaze, expressing so brutally straightforward and yet so relevant to the context of the story of these women.
This book is everything a novel aspires to be: a commentary on life; realistic fiction; humorously-entertaining examination of romantic attachment.
Everything a Novel Should Be
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Engrossing
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Perfect audio book.
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Twisty mystery
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What I didn’t like is that the story often left me feeling dreadful. Additionally, some parts are told in a sort of dreamy way that had my mind wandering more than listening. It was hard to pay attention. (Ahh, me seeing the world as I am.) So that all makes the book hard. I think some may find that hardness delighting and others turned off. I’m just “cool but hard” one star down for me.
One of Atwood’s harder books
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The women in the story are walked all over by men and the misogyny is hard to get past.
Ending is not suspenseful or satisfying
Hate it/Like it
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Excellent rendition of one of my favorite books!
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