February Book 3: The Robber Bride

Technically it is March now, but I finished this book 2 days ago, so it counts as a february one. This book was recommended by my cousin Rikki.

The Robber Bride
By Margaret Atwood
genre: fiction/ kinda feminist-ish (if that's a word)

This is a story about three women who come to know each other through similar experiences related to another manipulative, man-eating woman who digs her claws into each of their mates, and tries to destroy their lives. The three women, Tony, Charis, and Roz develop a friendship after they each suffer though their turn with the evil Zenia. They are all relieved when a few years later she dies. They attend the funeral together and all feel as though they can breath easier. Then one day while they are having lunch together Zenia walks back into their lives, and is obviously not dead after all. Now they just have to figure out what she wants and get rid of her before she finds a new way to destroy them completely.

I liked this book and got through it rather quickly. It was interesting and kept my attention. I was kind of annoyed about how easily everyone was manipulated by Zenia's lies when they seemed so obvious to me. I find it hard to believe that so many people would be that naive. I was also annoyed that every man was so susceptible to being taken away from their loving wife, or girlfriend. They seemed to go easily, which may be true for some men, but definitely not ANY/EVERY man. On the other hand, I liked the story of the friendship between the three woman though. Even though they didn't have a lot in common, they complimented each other and made their friendship work. Like the last book I read this one was narrated by the three different women with their different lives and personalities and the author did a great job of distinguishing them from each other.

This book has some mature language and swearing (including the f-word), some sexual references, and one of the main characters recounts her experience of being molested as a child, which was rather disturbing. If these are things you could look past, give it a shot, if not, don't read it. Marde, that means you.....You wouldn't like it!