Marialyce 's Reviews > The Maid

I always have reservations about reading a book where the main character appears to be on the autism spectrum. I can never see a clear path to what the character is represented as and carry immense reservations about whether the reading population understand the character or laugh at the character’s foibles.

Certainly in The Maid, we see a character who is special, one who is constantly telling us how it is to be Molly.

Perhaps, it’s because as a former teacher, I have had a large number of autistic students whose behavior was exhibited by their actions which the author falls quite short in portraying.

The book is not authentic and the contrived instances, left a visible hole wide enough to turn this reader to a place I dislike, that of unbelievable circumstances.

The character of Molly was overly done and the supporting characters laid on another layer of eye rolling and exasperated sighs from this reader.

I know many others enjoyed this story but for Jan and I, it was an overdone and over hyped story, sadly. Constantly searching for authentic characters and ones where the real world presents a real environment makes always for much entertainment and meaningful reading. Unfortunately, this book lacked both. Sadly disappointing and one that has no recommendation from this reader.