Little Darlings: A Novel
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The anxieties of motherhood take center stage in this “atmospheric and very creepy” debut psychological thriller that reinvents the changeling myth with the flair of Angela Carter (Guardian).
Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own...creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.
A month passes and one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. When they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else. But to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.
Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw...she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking—and rechecking—your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.
“Chilling story, beautiful prose.”
—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go
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I received a free digital copy of this book by Edelweiss+ in exchange for an honest review. This book wasn't bad. I do have a few things that I dislike about it but I think it's mostly that I'm about as far from the targeted demographic for this kind of book as you can get. I'm twenty, with no children and my preferred genres are science fiction and romance, not thrillers. This book is told from two POVs. One is a married woman in her late twenties named Lauren, and the other is a bisexual cop in her late thirties named Harper. Lauren has just had twin boys and is visited by a strange dirty woman that also had twins while she was in the hospital. This woman attempts to abduct Lauren's babies and replace them with her own non-human babies. I'm going to have to be honest and say I didn't like any of the characters except for Harper. I found Lauren to be judgemental and kind of bitchy, and Patrick was just a complete POS. The writing was extremely overly descriptive. It was so overly descriptive that sometimes I would get confused while reading because it was just weird to me that an entire paragraph would be dedicated to describing someone's vocal pitch while speaking. Some of the descriptions also really grossed me out. One, in particular, is when Lauren was describing her womb as "pulsating meat." This story took a looong time to pick up. I think it really started to pick up about 100 pages in and after that, the story was decent I guess. It's just not my cup of tea.
Description
The anxieties of motherhood take center stage in this “atmospheric and very creepy” debut psychological thriller that reinvents the changeling myth with the flair of Angela Carter (Guardian).
Everyone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest. And they’re right; with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. But she knows what she saw: that night, in her hospital room, a woman tried to take her babies and replace them with her own...creatures. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.
A month passes and one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. When they’re found, something is different about them. The infants look like Morgan and Riley—to everyone else. But to Lauren, something is off. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.
Determined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. But if she’s wrong about what she saw...she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.
Compulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking—and rechecking—your own little ones. Just to be sure. Just to be safe.
“Chilling story, beautiful prose.”
—Clare Mackintosh, New York Times bestselling author of I Let You Go
Book Information
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I received a free digital copy of this book by Edelweiss+ in exchange for an honest review. This book wasn't bad. I do have a few things that I dislike about it but I think it's mostly that I'm about as far from the targeted demographic for this kind of book as you can get. I'm twenty, with no children and my preferred genres are science fiction and romance, not thrillers. This book is told from two POVs. One is a married woman in her late twenties named Lauren, and the other is a bisexual cop in her late thirties named Harper. Lauren has just had twin boys and is visited by a strange dirty woman that also had twins while she was in the hospital. This woman attempts to abduct Lauren's babies and replace them with her own non-human babies. I'm going to have to be honest and say I didn't like any of the characters except for Harper. I found Lauren to be judgemental and kind of bitchy, and Patrick was just a complete POS. The writing was extremely overly descriptive. It was so overly descriptive that sometimes I would get confused while reading because it was just weird to me that an entire paragraph would be dedicated to describing someone's vocal pitch while speaking. Some of the descriptions also really grossed me out. One, in particular, is when Lauren was describing her womb as "pulsating meat." This story took a looong time to pick up. I think it really started to pick up about 100 pages in and after that, the story was decent I guess. It's just not my cup of tea.