Title: A Lousy Read
Product review: "Quickening" intends to be a moving account of a young girl's journey of self discovery, but instead I found myself marveling at how unsympathetic the main character was. Mandy is a dull, unattractive, easily-influenced, self-pitying dishrag. She mopes, she wallows, she has sex with anyone with a pulse and then wonders why it doesn't work out. To keep her company, the author has conjured up a group of equally abnoxious characters, including an obese, hypochondriac mother to a "Praise Jay-sus" country preacher. They're all red-neck grotesques, and though fans of Ms. Brown will most likely claim that they're "taken from real life," I suspect that they've been plucked from repeated viewings of Jerry Springer and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape." The last chapter is by far the best, but by then it's much too late to redeem this condescending, stagnant, and frequently scatalogical read.
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