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The repetetive use of the word 'judder' and its varying forms was bothersome but far worse was the main character of Jenny and how everything in her story reads as if she's speaking to her three year old daughter, Gracie. There were no breaks of Jenny's inner dialogue reverting back to her own thoughts (Jenny is telling the story from first person but seemingly only to her young daughter, which is pointed out often) so it was very jarring to read her description of having sex as if it was being told to her very young child. Jenny related the entire graphic description of her sexual encounter as it was happening and in the middle of sex stated that she recalled losing her virginity and then of 'giving birth to you, my love" as if telling her child about it, all while oral sex is being performed on her. It was very, very off-putting. Jen also has very unkind thoughts of Gracie's father and since so many paragraphs include Jenny's term of endearment for little Gracie ("my love") it was very difficult to get into the story since it seemed like highly inappropriate dialogue to be having with a toddler! I am only partway through the book but for this reason I may be unable to finish it. I think it was a very poor choice for the author to give the character's voice an autobiographical feel but with the character's three year old child as the seemingly only intended audience. It comes across as disturbing, inappropriate, and dare I say? Juddering.