I remember that once when I was about six or seven or so, I found a very old-looking book through my aunt’s things. Why have I felt the urge to read this book?Īs a child, I was always fascinated by fairy tales and by that I don’t mean the Disney-ish stories that some kids are spoon fed, but the real folkloric tales, as they are told from generation to generation, from mouth to mouth so to say. Spoiler alert: get past 150 or so pages and it’s going to get good. And I wanted it on the spot.īut after patiently reading on – man, it might’ve been a click somewhere, because there were several passages when I actually felt a shiver down my spine and I thought oh well, my girl, this is it, it’s going down (and also maybe because I was reading those passages at 1:30 in the middle of the night in general but oh well…). I know I am being absurd, but I WANTED WHAT MY SYNOPSIS PROMISED. Okay, yeah, I get it, I shouldn’t expect the good shit from only 25% (which is like how much anyway? 76 pages?), but to be honest I am in a point in my life when I don’t need slow readings anymore. And there I was, standing at 25% of the book and expecting something. When I started this book I had very high hopes which is strange because I’ve learned not to have high hopes in life only and just only I have something I can put my finger on. Me: *hugs tight Leo, the stuffed lion* Shh my baby! I won’t let that scary unshowered woman take you away from me! Me: *gets blankie and stuffed lion* let the horror begin T hanks NetGalley and the publisher for a free, electronic ARC of this novel received in exchange for an honest review! Explanation: I was expecting too much to feel something in particular that lasted too little. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3.45 stars actually, rounded down to 3. But if she’s wrong about what she saw…she’ll be making the biggest mistake of her life.Ĭompulsive, creepy, and inspired by some of our darkest fairy tales, Little Darlings will have you checking―and rechecking―your own little ones. As everyone around her celebrates their return, Lauren begins to scream, These are not my babies.ĭetermined to bring her true infant sons home, Lauren will risk the unthinkable. The infants look like Morgan and Riley―to everyone else. But when they’re found, something is different about them. And one bright summer morning, the babies disappear from Lauren’s side in a park. Everyone, from her doctor to her husband, thinks she’s imagining things.Ī month passes. Yet when the police arrived, they saw no one. 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. And they’re right with newborn twins, Morgan and Riley, she’s never been more tired in her life. “Mother knows best” takes on a sinister new meaning in this unsettling thriller perfect for fans of Neil Gaiman and Grimms’ Fairy Tales.Įveryone says Lauren Tranter is exhausted, that she needs rest.
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