Reviews for Aunt Maria

The average rating for Aunt Maria based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-12-18 00:00:00 Kenneth Maxfield Jr I think it was then that it dawned on me that Mum wasn't going to notice Chris was missing. She has been made so that she thinks Chris is just round the corner all the time. She doesn't realise that she never sees him. I don't know why I didn't understand earlier. If Aunt Maria can turn Chris into a wolf, she's surely strong enough to do this to Mum- except that it seems a different kind of thing, much more natural and ordinary, and I didn't really think she could do both kinds. Old Aunt Maria's sweet victim voice is a whistle only a kicked dog can hear. Mig, her brother Chris and their mother Betty were free in London until the wheedling voice found them. Pack up for a "working holiday" in Cranbury-on-Sea. You'll never see the sea. It must have been littered with s.o.s bottles. Honey, do take care of this one for them. Well, the mom answered the phone and that was that. It's selfish to live the only life you will ever have. I know how this goes. I didn't buy all of the stuff about how Aunt Maria is so sweet. She sounded exactly like the passive aggressive assholerly of my elderly relatives. The younger ones are fond of volunteering me to babysit for others. Don't have kids? You can't be doing anything important like the important people. I have to put up with the disappointment in my "selfishness" when I don't drop my plans. It feels like not being one of them. It's better than the alternative. You don't become more of a person if you play their part. They hate Aunt Maria and they didn't have to be there. What made this so real is that Betty wanted Mig to be eternally understanding, keep the cold war under lid. Look at the old woman. I know she is faking it, she didn't need those walking sticks because there she is running, but come on take this burden from me so I don't have to sacrifice or feel guilty. Chris she sent out of the house as much as possible. Mig is the girl and won't she be the dutiful little lady. The Queen is a big spider weaving her sticky familial duty strings. She's an ant with worker slaves, a bee's sting. If they were there could only be one queen. There is a contender in the thirteen females in her posse. I don't know why Aunt Maria needed her power. She has the same conversations, eats the same food. Someone to wait on her hand and kiss her feet. What made this so eerie is the drones-in-waiting quality. Children don't live with families. They are mind clones in superfluous camouflage. Waiting in orphanages to take their place for what is the point anyway. Why are people more important if they have kids, anyway? The kids will grow up and then their point is to have more of them. The men of Cranbury-on-Sea are zombies. An ambitious player in Aunt Maria's circle is the creepy Elaine. Her husband is one of these zombies. She didn't bite his head off when he's done but she may as well have done. I say why would someone go looking for this kind of relationship in the first place. If you are married to an Elaine you asked for it. She's one of those women who don't like other females. They aren't assured of their pheromones working the zombie magic, I guess. Black Maria is the best when the sinister expectations are real world dead air from the you're doomed seas. Goblin woods, underground alive. It doesn't have to be that way. Aunt Maria does have a power. There's an garden of eve apple in a Pandora's box reason for her hold on Cranbury. Hunter and gatherer history. The women have the power for now. I didn't like the book as much in the end as the beginning. It annoyed me that one woman would keep other people down and that it could be a man to restore the balance. I know that there are people who are willing sheep. I have known men who choose women who will do absolutely all of the life necessities for them, only to drool over the airhead at work who will "make them feel like a man". So gross. But every single person is like this unless one person is going to fix everything with magic? I wanted Betty and Chris to stop railing at Mig for not being preternaturally heroic, figure out things they didn't figure out themselves. She's a real girl and why isn't that enough for people. Black Maria was so good when Aunt Maria seems to have an inexplicable power over their mother. When it feels like Betty will be an ally, they'll go home. It's such real life shittiness when that happens. She know life is the miserable unreasonableness sneaking on you like hidden ways down. It is, but I liked it best when it's not accepting it in the end. Jones got it right when she hugs to herself an almost seeing the light. It feels truer that you know this and it feels so bad in spite of that "understanding". I hope Mig doesn't grow up to do things she doesn't want to do because she feels she will be a bad person if she doesn't. I loved the orphans who always sneak each other cookies when one of them is punished. That gave me something that the women on one side and men on the other was wrong here. Brains turned and hearts churned off Aunt Maria's web, maybe. I'm not sure either about the men who would one moment accuse Mig on behalf of all women that they manipulate men with these people burdens only to be comfortable in figment rules. The could beam well practiced getting away with it smiles. I guess you can make a case for this happening (it could if you looked for it without meaning it is true for everyone). I just didn't like it that it's so conscious. Everybody seems to know it is going down when it is going down. Getting away with what? It seems just like feeling bad when you're being you. It was neat when a buried alive character astral projects himself as he sees himself. A court jester parrot. It's a weird mix of special with some nagging reasoning. It would be great if I could go inside books I read and then argue with them about what I can't deal. Not that I would think it would work in life.

Review # 2 was written on 2011-03-27 00:00:00 Edward Thomas Terrifying and perfect. I want to write a 10-book thesis about gender in this book.