Violet Conner Is The Millenial Rhoda Penmark!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                             I could say this book is a "pushover," but even for I, that would be bad taste.

                                             When I first saw this book,  I thought it referred to the pushing exerted by women, during the process of childbirth.

                                                And the attention this book is getting--a feminist tract on motherhood; the right to choose to mother  or not; to love, or  not love  your child--come on!  Stop kidding yourlseves.  Anyone who grasps the character reference  in my headline should understand where this story is headed.

                                                  Yes,  it is another evil child, in  the tradition of the 1950's  work that set the gold  standard--"The Bad Seed," by William  March.

                                                   Obviiously, today's reviewers are clueless to any form of  literature of the past.  Nowhere  have I seen the March work referenced,  though it  is patently drawn  from  it.  Yes,  there was  a  comparison  to "We Need To Talk About Kevin," but even that would not have existed without the March novel.

                                                      Besides numerous decades, the  main difference here--and the reader has to just go  with this and believe--is  that the mother, Blythe Conner, (NOT  to be confused with Blythe Danner,  darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!) senses something  wrong with the child, from the time  it  is in her womb.  There  is no "Rosemary's Baby"  supernatural  chicanery going on here.  She just "senses" it.

                                                           And,  of course, no one believes her!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                        Are you kidding me?  And I won't even bother going into the genetic explanation for this.  You do need a reason to read the  book.

                                                         That would be its last sentence.  I kept  wondering how Audrain  would  end  her story, and she found a cliffhanger that left even jaded me gasping!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                                            So,  go ahead and read it.  But, if  you have never read "The Bad Seed," go read it afterward, and see why that holds up after 66 years.  "The Push"  will not.