Mixed Feelings

filled star filled star filled star star unfilled star unfilled
the_book_tale Avatar

By

I have mixed feelings about Surrender that makes it difficult for me to give the book a rating. I enjoyed the middle sections of the book where MacDonald is describing her experience finding out she is pregnant and her experience in an un-wed women's home in the 1960s. It was a unique tale and one I'd never heard told before. I was invested in the story and in her. My main critique of the book is that the very beginning and very end focus on the question of nature versus nurture but MacDonald doesn't bring anything new or interesting to the conversation. The book was also marketed as a tale about nature versus nurture, which it wasn't. That was the part that bothered me the most. It was a novel about a young girls experience getting pregnant as a teenager in the sixties with a few pieces of commentary about the nature versus nurture debate. Surrender would have gotten a higher rating from me if it was marketed fro what it actually entailed.