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村上 優一 murakami0122 — This book provides a very good insight into the nature of humankind, but don't start reading it because you expect a funny story just because it has a funny title. It isn't a nice little adventure story, but an account of what would most likely actually happen in a situation like this. It really makes you think.

Tomas Sedlickas _omas_edlickas — Ok the ending it just messed up! Why Why Why and that is all I have to say. I loved the book it written very well, I still have to get used to these book that change perspective from one character another.

Erica Viva _rica_iva — I finished Brett McBean’s novel, The Mother last night coming home on the train and was left with a chilling feeling upon its completion. I bought the book from Infinitas Bookshop in Parramatta – near where I work – the day I got my first pay from my new job. Firstly, the premise for the book intrigued me and secondly, I hadn’t read any Australian horror and I was interested in seeing how McBean tackled the setting. The Mother is about a mother hitchhiking along the Hume Highway searching for her daughter’s killer. Each chapter is written from the point of view of a different hitchhiker as they pick up this woman – always going by a different name – and the reader experiences her changing appearance and mental state as the likelihood of her finding him becomes more grim. With this style, you can tell that McBean is indeed, a short story writer and I found the style unique and fresh. The characters are compelling. Each driver seems to have a different take on who she is and their relation to her. Even though these drivers aren’t her killer, a lot of them seem to have hidden horrors of their own. But there’s a sense of loss when you come to the end of each chapter. Just as Brett McBean has managed to suck you into the world of the driver, you’re spat back out only to start journey again in the next chapter. With this, and the changing personality of the mother, the compelling characters in the novel aren’t allowed to live their full potential. Also, the novel seems to contain two climaxes. The middle chapter of the novel, featuring the truckie, Blake, is one of the highlights of the novel. Slowly, it builds up to a climax where we think we’re going to make some progress, then it’s flipped upside down and we lose hope. I think that was the effect it was meant to have and you surely felt what the mother was feeling when a sense of a conclusion was taken from her. A lot of the second half of the novel contains this feeling of hopeless and despair as the deterioration of the mother’s mental state accelerates to a point where she becomes a very different person each chapter. The second climax, the real one, leaves you feeling empty and chilled to the bone. The final conclusion, is indeed, something to mull over for a time. For me, there are individual scenes of brilliance in The Mother. One, as also described in McBean’s article, is the scene at Lake Mokoan. Brett is extremely lucky to fall upon this piece of landscape near Benalla in Victoria. It’s perfect for a horror novel and leaves a lasting effect on you – I’m even tempted to visit it someday. As a whole, The Mother is brilliantly written and has a chilling resonance to it. However, the unique style of the story doesn’t allow you to grow with the characters in the story and holds it back from a punch that it most certainly has within it. If this is anything to go by, I’d really like to see if I can get my hands on some of Brett McBean’s shorter works. http://www.benjaminsolah.com/blog/?p=350