{"id":3679,"date":"2025-07-27T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3679"},"modified":"2025-07-27T05:05:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T05:05:00","slug":"madwoman-by-chelsea-bieker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/?p=3679","title":{"rendered":"Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madwoman<\/strong> by Chelsea Bieker<\/a>
on September 3, 2024
Genres:<\/strong> Fiction \/ Family Life \/ General<\/a>, Fiction \/ Literary<\/a>, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense<\/a>
Pages:<\/strong> 336
Format:<\/strong> Audiobook<\/a>, Hardcover<\/a>
Buy on Amazon<\/a>
Goodreads<\/a> <\/p>\n

Clove has\u00a0gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she\u2019s landed the life of her dreams, complete with a safe husband and two adoring children who will never know the terror that was routine in her own childhood. If her buried anxiety threatens to breach the surface, Clove (if that is really her name) focuses on finding the right supplement, the right gratitude meditation.\u00a0But when she receives a letter from a women\u2019s prison in California, her past comes screeching into the present, entangling her in a dangerous game with memory and the people she thought she had outrun. As we\u00a0race\u00a0between her precarious present-day life in Portland, Oregon and her childhood in a Waikiki high-rise with her mother and father, Clove is forced to\u00a0finally unravel the defining day of her life. How did she survive that day, and what will it take to end the cycle of violence? Will the truth undo her, or could it ultimately save her?<\/p>\n

The writing in the book is strong, giving the reader a real sense of Clove\u2019s trauma and how it affects every choice she makes in life. She\u2019s not an extremely likable character, she makes poor choices and decisions, but even so, she is quite relatable because it is an innate thing as a mother to try to create the best possible outcome for your children. What I didn\u2019t like was that I found all of the twists to be incredibly predictable. And since the story could have been an impactful and moving tale of overcoming domestic abuse, the twists seemed forced and way too convenient to propel the story in a believable way. I wanted to be more surprised than I was. The pacing is also very slow. We know from the beginning that Clove has secrets about her past, but the story of what happened is doled out very slowly and causes the narrative to drag. That said, the ending is good and left me with a positive feeling. <\/p>\n

I rated this novel three stars. I\u2019m glad I read this book, but if you\u2019re going to read it realize that it does have some flaws, particularly with pacing. You know what\u2019s going to happen, and you\u2019re not excited about that outcome, but at the same time it\u2019s the only thing that staves off the ever-present itching that would otherwise drive you insane. In other words, it was annoying and predictable, but I enjoyed the process anyway.<\/p>\n

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Madwoman by Chelsea Bieker on September 3, 2024 Genres: Fiction \/ Family Life \/ General, Fiction \/ Literary, Fiction \/ Thrillers \/ Suspense Pages: 336 Format: Audiobook, Hardcover Buy on Amazon Goodreads Clove has\u00a0gone to extremes to keep her past a secret. Thanks to her lies, she\u2019s landed the life of her dreams, complete with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookloves.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}