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am a father twiceover and I can appreciate how difficult it is to balance working life and two kids for a mother when us dads are on business trips, but this particular account did not really move me very much.
Phillips creates a doppelganger for her overloaded protagonist, but I felt that the strangeness was overwrought and uninteresting, The idea of parallel universes colliding is a common trope, but no satisfactory explanation is given as to why the Seam that Molly is working on suddenly creates a rift in timespace forcing a collision of realities.
The idea of finding some objects was quaint but sort of pointless because the only objects that were truly of interest were the femalepronoun Bible and the penny.
It just did not add up for me as a reader, I don't understand why this book would be on anyone's Pulitzer hopefuls list to be honest, I was so nonplussed that i don't even have any quotes to share,

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Our thoughts, in time, become the battleground,

Molly balances on a hair's breadth between her professional life and that of distant wife and blearyeyed mother of two, Her heart is wrapped up in the ribbons of mommyhood with four year old precocious Viv and toddling one year old Ben, Her husband, David, is out of the country on one of his musician treks, Molly's hired Erica, a young woman babysitter, to fill in the gaps,

The Pit . .

Molly, a dedicated paleobotanist, is assigned to a fossil quarry located outside the town near a defunct Phillipsgas station, She works alongside Roz and Corey taking turns sifting through The Pit for treasures, categorizing and documenting finds, and presenting tours for busloads of the curious, Beneath the dirt, the team has found a Coke bottle, a recent penny, and a Bible that designates God as "She", Molly finds a certain strangeness here that can't be put into words, . especially the tall, thin woman dressed in black wearing a baseball cap,

A Night Visitor, . .

Right out of the gate, Helen Phillips has us crouched down next to Molly as she hugs her two children tightly to her chest in the dark.
She's heard someone in the next room and whispers to her babies not to make a sound, Slowly she makes her way closer only to be stunned by the presence of someone sitting statuelike on her couch wearing the deer mask that David made out of paper mache for her.
And, believe me, it's not David,

The Need is almost beyond description with its threads tightly wound around the purity of motherhood and the deeply rooted grip of survival, Phillips paints detail like a master artist in this one with descriptors that elevate the connection between mother and child to grand heights, Your eyes almost well each time the dialogue is spoken in innocent tones, Phillips tumbles out memories of the sweet smell of a baby's hair and the squeeze of tiny fingers on skin, She has a powerful reign over unexplainable events that keep her readers in a freefall from the first page to the very end,

Helen Phillips will incorporate a razorsharp split involving one of her characters, We'll see events happening with blurred, uncertain eyes, Molly will experience the gut reaction of a fight or flight response throughout, And we, as readers, can't let go, .

I received a copy of The Need through Simon amp Schuster for an honest review, My sincere thanks to them and to the talented Helen Phillips for the opportunity, When Molly, home alone with her two young children, hears footsteps in the living room, she tries to convince herself its the sleep deprivation, Shes been hearing things these days, Startling at loud noises. Imagining the worstcase scenario. Its what mothers do, she knows,

But then the footsteps come again, and she catches a glimpse of movement,

Suddenly Molly finds herself facetoface with an intruder who knows far too much about her and her family, As she attempts to protect those she loves most, Molly must also acknowledge her own frailty, Molly slips down an existential rabbit hole where she must confront the dualities of motherhood: the ecstasy and the dread the languor and the ferocity the banality and the transcendence as the book hurtles toward a mindbending conclusion.


In The Need, Helen Phillips has created a subversive, speculative thriller that comes to life through blazing, arresting prose and gorgeous, haunting imagery.
Anointed as one of the most exciting fiction writers working today, The Need is a glorious celebration of the bizarre and beautiful nature of our everyday lives.
OK, first I should admit that The Need by Helen Phillips was a book that quickly lost my interest and I had a hard time following this one from the start.
There are plenty of people that love this one so its probably more a case of its me and not the book this time, The Need is a sort of weird horror, scifi mix that did remind me a lot of being tossed into the Twilight Zone for a few hours while reading and as weird as it sounds with me being a huge horror fan I was never that fond of the Twilight Zone.


Our main character Molly is a young mother that tries to do it all to hold her family together, A mother of two young children under the age of five would be more than enough for anyone to handle but Mollys husband is a musician and often gone while Molly is a paleobotanist bringing home the steady pay.
Molly has been working at a site called the Dig where things have been found that seem just out of the ordinary leaving Molly with questions, Then one night at home with her children, overworked and exhausted Molly encounters an intruder into her life,

As I mentioned already this one just didnt seem to be for me, it felt like the beginning wanted to be creepy horror but then became more scattered and out there as it went along.
Not sure how to explain it as to me it felt the author was trying to expand but dropped some details as quickly as they start along the way and just didnt gel well into the book.
I just figure as much as I love twists and turns and red herrings in stories those are still solid information whereas something like this leaves too much to the imagination leaving me with questions along the way.


I received an advance copy from the publisher via NetGalley,

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This is a strange one! I have to check with my friends on who has read this!

I would love to analyze this novel in a more literary sense then my review could possibly describe it.
It is deserving to be loved for the deeper meaning and defragmentation of it all, Perhaps it is a work of literary brilliance if you value its depth and hidden reasonings, It wasn't what I was expecting at a time with my brain tuned in on summer, light heartedness and beach reads, My mood was not fitting this baffling and strange novel,

Molly is an archeologist and working mother to a still nursing baby boy and a highly demanding little girl and I mean highly, highly demanding and an irritating little girl.
Her husband is gone on a business trip, one of many, She is wrestling the demands, sleep deprivation and chores in a haze but caring, Since the birth of her kids, she is having anxieties about hearing movements in the house, In her own little panic, she is prepared to hide with the kids in closets, bathtubs, under the bed and so on, just until she can be sure they are safe.


Working at the archeological site, she digs and gives tours, Some of the latest findings include a controversial bible with the creator's pronoun shown as female, As the site is getting more and more attention due to this phenomenon, Molly is also anxious about attacks by visitors and envisions the most horrific threats.


At some point, a woman enters the novel and she looks just like Molly, The same EVERYTHING! In dirty clothes, and lactating as well, she wants to take over Molly's life and share the children, She threatens her, tells her she has been through more than she could imagine and begins to invade Molly's home life, All while her husband is away,

What ensues are visions of Molly as if outside her own body, comparing her methods with the kids, going through fits of rage and even witnessing a hot hook up of her husband with the "other" her.


In many elements of the story, I was contemplating if this is an alternate reality/dimension overlapping with Molly's life, It certainly was hinted at that with different findings in the archeological pit, but then again at the same time, I thought this woman has just gone crazy.


To find out and form your own opinion of this novel, you will have to read it, There is lot's of room for interpretation I believe and that is why it is so deserving to be analyzed,

What I did no like in the plot as a whole was this annoying little daughter, and believe me, I love kids, Again, perhaps just another way of showing how frazzled one would be in this situation, I have a lot of patience, but this little one was interjected way too much in this novel and

I did not enjoy reading it that way.


So, I haven't found many books I don't like at all, and this isn't one of those either, but I wasn't the right person for this one.
It is more or less a situation of a cat entering the life of a dog mama, simply not a natural match,

I'd love to hear what others think about it And how did you like the ending

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