This book is truly insufferable. I only made it through an hour and forty-five minutes of it.

3.5 is what I actually rate this book. The last hour or so made it worth my time even though it was sick and twisted. I wouldn't discourage anyone from reading this book but I'd give the caveat that it doesn't get interesting until the end.

Good book. I can understand why some may not like this story but its not meant to be liked by everyone. Good narrator.

The first 15 hours of this book were painfully slow and excruciating to get through.

Could not get through the first hour of it. Main character is pretentious and annoying.

I really wanted to like this book, but it just wasn’t for me. I found it disturbing, and nearly every character was unlikable. The writing was long-winded, overly wordy, and, to me, came across as almost pompous. Ironically, Kevin’s description of his mother as someone who thought she was better than everyone else is exactly how the writing style made me feel about the author. It was a struggle to get through, and I was relieved when I finally finished it.

I loved this book. It was very easy to listen to for me.

The quarter or so of the book was boring. I didn't really get into it until Kevin was born and things got a little more interesting. The "narrator" was AI and I hated that about it!

The narrator was brilliant, her voice made you feel every pull on her cold heart string. Asking the age old question of nature versus nurture was Kevin born evil or was he made that way. His mother never got to connect with him but was it because she was missing something or was it that he lacked something? Told through the narrator as letters to her husband it dictates Kevin’s life from before he was in the womb all the way to when he commits the murders to where he now sits in prison. An emotionally unnerving tale but an excellent one!

I *loved* this book. It depressed and disturbed me--even though I didn't necessarily enjoy the way I felt through the whole reading, the book made such an impact on me that I was thinking about it for days afterwards. The writing is a little overblown, but that suits the narrator to a tee. This is in no way a feel-good read, so know what you're getting into.