Member Review

This review may contain spoilers.
Wow, well I loved this book. It is a little hard to describe its genre as I would say it is part Horror, part Thriller, part detective tale. But one thing is for certain it is a real psychological thriller with truly creepy elements and it seems to take it inspiration from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, and other old folklore tales.
Shortly after giving birth to twins Morgan and Riley, she becomes convinced that a woman has attempted to ‘swap’ her babies whilst in the hospital, but no sign is found of the woman and her tale is dismissed as being caused by her tiredness and postpartum depression. Once she and the babies are back home, she hopes that things will settle down but this is not to be.
I do not want to say too much about the story as I do not want to spoil it for anyone but I must say
that the scenes in the Psychiatric hospital were very well observed. And I felt extreme sadness in Harpers dealings with Victoria. Were the things she said just the ramblings of a demented old woman or the truth of what really happened.
The last segment of the book fairly sped by. I was both terrified off and for Lauren and her babies, but that feeling was then replaced with a type of relief, I say type because the ending of the tale also filled me with sadness for the final plight of Lauren and her babies.
I understand that the book has been optioned to be made into a film and I feel the story is well suited to this. Strangely enough I have just watched the TV series ‘The Secrets She Keeps’ which is on a similar theme, and one of the scenes was set in a park around a pond / lake. It was so spooky to see it after just reading this book, that scene gave me the shivers just as this book did.