Donna Davis’s Reviews > The Night Child > Status Update
Donna Davis
is 33% done
Character development is oddly lacking in the first portion of the story, with parent issues and mental health sucking up the whole of it. But at about the 30% mark, just as I was asking myself if I could abandon it, the whole thing woke up. Courageous stuff, the dissociative disorder and watching the marriage come unstuck. Did Anna marry her dad all over again? Did Paul marry his mother?
— Oct 19, 2017 03:52PM
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Donna Davis
is 65% done
The central thread here is riveting. Note to anyone involved with the publication: "Pike's Place Market" should be changed to omit the apostrophe and the letter s. Pike Place Market is correct.
— Oct 23, 2017 03:54PM
Donna Davis
is 43% done
"Everyone has their own way of being brave," Sister Rosa says. And oh my my my, we learn more about Margaret, and we wonder how many more must be in there, maybe for a good long while. This story could be the 21st century's answer to Sybil.
— Oct 22, 2017 12:03AM
Donna Davis
is 20% done
Ohhh, all is so not well. Nora is an unreliable narrator, and the task for the reader is to tease out what is real, and what is part of her mental illness.
— Oct 15, 2017 03:46PM
Donna Davis
is 17% done
I like the way she depicts Nora's mental health challenges generally, and the dialogue in the psychiatrist's office (but where are we going with abortion?) Time gets away from her, makes her unreliable.
Trends in writing: why does everyone jump on the pulling-my-hair-out bandwagon at once? This author doesn't bother me more than any other, but I think I've read 4 or 5 of these this year, and none before.
— Oct 08, 2017 12:15AM
Trends in writing: why does everyone jump on the pulling-my-hair-out bandwagon at once? This author doesn't bother me more than any other, but I think I've read 4 or 5 of these this year, and none before.
