Kim and Jeff Sanders think nothing of allowing their daughter, Hannah, to have friends over for her sixteenth birthday. Kim takes an Ambien with a glass of wine so she can sleep through any squealing done by teen girls. Jeff even gives Hannah a bottle of champagne to share with her friends. There are enough of them that one bottle isn't going to do anything. But then Hannah wakes her mother up in the middle of the night and she is covered in blood. And their life, as they know it is over.
After the party, Kim and Jeff realize that their affluent lifestyle is in danger. Their beautiful home, their luxury cars, the private school education could all vanish. Hannah realizes what it is like to be on the other side of the cool crowd. As the days after the party pass, the Sanders family start to realize that there are more important things to life than having the best of everything, but is it too late?
I don't think that I have disliked a character as much as I disliked Kim at first. Her entire world revolves around being perfect. Having perfect kids. Having a perfect marriage. She is really quite detestable in her way of judging everyone around her, but especially the way she treats her husband. Everything that went down after the party made me like her even less. She lacked one key characteristic - compassion. Jeff wasn't exactly an upstanding moral kind of guy either, but I thought that he had more compassion than Kim. And really in their world, is it any wonder their kids were raised to be monsters? I was a little surprised by the end, I didn't think that Kim had it in her. She experienced a level of redemption that I did not expect. All of them did. - CLICK HERE FOR SPOILERS.
Bottom Line - Raising kids is hard and people suck. Neither fact can be denied and one makes the other incredibly difficult. But it becomes even harder when the sense of entitlement overrules common sense and compassion. The Party is a great book that is sure to generate some heated discussion at your next book club.
Details:
- The Party by Robyn Harding
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- Pages: 384
- Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
- Publication Date: 6/6/2017
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