We Need To Talk About Kevin - Lionel Shriver (Regular Strength Book Club)

I expected this book to be both disturbing and depressing, since it is about a school killer, an underage boy who brings death and noteriety to his school. What I did not expect at all was that the book was upsetting and depressing in an entirely different way.

It is written from the perspective of Eva, Kevin's mother, and tells about Kevin starting from when he was just a gleam in his father's eye. Most disturbing is that all of the doubts that a woman has, all of those little nagging feelings that run through your mind when you are deciding whether to have children, are blown up into stark realities with terrible consequences. It makes you second guess whether anyone should ever have children at all. This book leaves the blood chilled and the heart shaken. While it's not a happy book, it's a book that should be read and discussed and considered. (And it will certainly teach you not to pressure people into having babies, that's for sure. )