Rose Madder
Written by Stephen King
About 420 pages
Originally published in 1995
Rate: Did not finish; maybe a 2/5
I have never really had to put a book down because of how intensely graphic it was until I read this book. Even though this was required reading, I will not be finishing this book. I got more than half way into this book, so I figured I would write up a little review from my limited knowledge about it.
What is Rose Madder about?
Rosie Daniels has been married to an abusive corrupt cop for over 14 years. Nine years after Norman, Rosie's husband, causes Rosie to have a miscarriage (by repeatedly punching her stomach) she sees a drop of blood that causes her to stop disassociating. Once Norman is at work, she runs away and tries to get as far away from him as she can. But, he's a cop...
My thoughts on Rose Madder
The first bit of the book was full of intensely graphic abuse, then a bit of terror. The bit next was vile, but also hopeful. I stopped reading a little over half way because a couple of paragraphs really triggered me. The parts that I read were very disturbing so I took breaks and read on, but eventually it got to the point where I didn't want to read anymore of the story.
I am going to consider this book read because I did read quite a bit of it and I looked up the ending and figured most things out. It seems like it ends well if you want to put yourself through all those emotions for majority of the book just to have a bit of a happy brutal ending.
Maybe I will pick this up later and be okay with it, but the abuse and miscarriage among other things was not in good taste for me considering current life events. I suppose the book was good for the genre, but it's a solid no for me.
As always...