We Need to Talk About Kevin

Never thought it would end the way it did. really makes you think about the nurture/nature debate. Took a little while to get in to but once I did I was hooked!

I loved this book it is very chilling full of twists and turns - this book willmake you think for a long time after reading- a good book for a book club as it sparks discussions re who is to blame for Kevin's behaviour.

Really well written & a real page turner. If I had to fault this book, I would say I find the mother to be a bit self pitying but then that tends to be a characteristic of Shriver's female characters.

I have picked this up a few times in the bookshop and keep putting it down - it sounds from your reviews that it is a good book to read albeit a wee bit disturbing.

This book is continuing to haunt me long after I've read it, I couldn't put it down - and just when I was convinced that Kevin was just born evil, the author showed that he had a vulnerable side as well, and for some brief moment one could feel empathy for the little lost boy he was ... although I still believe he must have been flawed in some way to do what he did. So what does everyone think was at "fault": nature or nurture?

OMG this book was scary good!! I work in a school and it really changes the way you think lol!!

I found this book incredibly disturbing, but brilliantly written. The subject tackles the age old question on nature vs. nuture in the debate on the existence on psychopathy in our society. Very gripping and very chilling.

Absolutely gripping novel, best I've read in a long time. It was unbelievable and the twist makes it disturbing and emotional and horrific yet unputdownable. A must read for all bookworms

I found this book unputdownable. I simply couldnt stop thinking about each character and the effect Kevin had on each member of the family. Love books that give you something to think about and how every story has numerous aspects. Funny though, I have recommended this book to so many people who didnt like it at all. Too disturbing perhaps with the great topic for debate at the fore front. Is it our genes or enviroment that ultimately make us what we are?

I enjoyed this disturbing story about a mother who's son killed 7 students at his school. Its a very emotional book and I found I had mix feelings for both the mother & her son

I found this a difficult book to read because it made me so annoyed all the time. The mother character was not believable in my opinion-or at least her actions or lack of action was not credible. She was an intelligent wealthy middle class american CEO who apparently does nothing about the fact her son wears nappies at the age of six? she never sees a psychologist? She stays with her stupid husband when she is the one with the money ? She leaves her other child exposed to great danger-nothing she does is at all rational or normal. Having read this book when my son was the same age to the day that "kevin" goes on his rampage I failed to identify at all with this woman although I have to say at least I talked about it! The book actually gets a lot better when Kevin finally goes on his killing rampage and the "twist" at the end saves the book. It is a book that is an effort to read and it poses the nature versus nuture question which is itself interesting. It is certainly one which will provoke a lot of debate.

I had to read this book in instalments, because it was very confronting and sad, I had to keep reading it but only in short reads so it took a couple of months. The Mother 's story was so "honest" and i think as a mother I often question myself as to how a situation really is..or was, we all have such different memories of how certain faimily situations acutally were!! Soooo , I did finish it and would reccommend it as a very good ,well written book, well worth reading.

I think your description is incorrect - her husband is not 'estranged' but to say anymore would spoil the twist in the tale.

Brilliantly unfolded but difficult to read because of the agony of reading such a disturbing story. Very very sad.