Tuesday, September 25, 2018

The Child Next Door by Shalini Boland

2.5/5

A 2-star rating is "it was okay" and this book was just that for me.  The end was a bit redeeming but I did not like Kirstie.  She was a bit too over-the-top for my liking.  A single picture proves nothing.

Kirstie is a tired, new mom.  Her daughter, Daisy is 6mos old.  One day Kirstie is dozing off on the couch when she hears a baby crying (which wakes her) and then through the baby monitor she hears "let's just take the baby and go".  That was the beginning of the end for Kirstie.  She just about lost her mind thinking someone was trying to steal her baby because, after all, there are no other babies on their street so they must be talking about taking Daisy, right?  She was going crazy.  She was irrational and irritating.

There were accusations made, trust betrayed and broken promises.

And, I'm not even certain that the epilogue even needed to exist but how creepy was that?

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