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Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing by Allison Winn Scotch
2.0
This was difficult & frustrating. Only good part was the last 10% of the book. Cleo McDougal is not likeable. She’s not gracious. And she’s not unrelatable. After the book, I STILL don’t like her. She’s not even a good person for most of her life and admits to this. She’s cutthroat, ruthless and doesn’t even have a sense of humor. I really wished she had a sense of humor. She’s literally a mood killer and doesn’t laugh at anything and corrects people often. She kills me. She has no understanding or real relationship with her teenage son. She’s so socially awkward. Get off your high horse lady! She often says she did everything by herself, always on her own and never giving anyone credit. She finally realizes that she only had to ask and be vulnerable but lets be real here, she DIDN’T do it all on her own. Emily, Gaby, her sister Georgie helped her. She didn’t give them enough credit. Maybe if she spent more time on caring for her son and raising him into a decent young man, she wouldn’t be chasing after him trying to tell him to change.
She is terrible to her sister who seems to only be nothing but good to her and she never makes up for it. She even mentions several times her sister was a disaster to her parents and their family dynamics. That it was really just the three of them (mother, father & her) and pretty much wanted nothing to do with her sister. As if she’s a nuisance/outcast and she was gladly to do it even after their death. I wish the author had her address how horrible she was to her sister all those years. The reason I gave this 3 stars is because I liked the 10% and I did like some of the themes in the book. It’s true that women are scrutinized, ridiculed and torn apart when they go publicly about their sexual predators.
She often says her own equal is Gaby. Does that mean you are often looking down on others? That’s what it sounds like to me. What kind of feminist are you anyway? If you have to keep proving to others you are better than them, then it takes away from who you are. Just do what you need to do and stop talking. She also never apologizes and gets mad when anyone does. She became a “feminist” by tearing down other women.
PS for the LOVE of books, please stop it with the run-on sentences. I obviously write run-on sentences but I’m not an author. This author has run-on sentence after run-on sentence. Sometimes for whole paragraphs! CAN WE GET A PERIOD IN HERE SOMEWHERE?
She is terrible to her sister who seems to only be nothing but good to her and she never makes up for it. She even mentions several times her sister was a disaster to her parents and their family dynamics. That it was really just the three of them (mother, father & her) and pretty much wanted nothing to do with her sister. As if she’s a nuisance/outcast and she was gladly to do it even after their death. I wish the author had her address how horrible she was to her sister all those years. The reason I gave this 3 stars is because I liked the 10% and I did like some of the themes in the book. It’s true that women are scrutinized, ridiculed and torn apart when they go publicly about their sexual predators.
She often says her own equal is Gaby. Does that mean you are often looking down on others? That’s what it sounds like to me. What kind of feminist are you anyway? If you have to keep proving to others you are better than them, then it takes away from who you are. Just do what you need to do and stop talking. She also never apologizes and gets mad when anyone does. She became a “feminist” by tearing down other women.
PS for the LOVE of books, please stop it with the run-on sentences. I obviously write run-on sentences but I’m not an author. This author has run-on sentence after run-on sentence. Sometimes for whole paragraphs! CAN WE GET A PERIOD IN HERE SOMEWHERE?