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.
11. Apr.Apr 11, 2025
Little Darlings: A Novelby Melanie GoldingCrooked Lane Books
