When she hears the baby crying, she knows she has to do something to keep it safe. To protect it from its terrible parents. Even though the father of the child is Melissa’s own son…
When Melissa Crawford snatches a crying baby from outside a house, she knows she’s done the right thing. She can’t bear to see the baby suffer one more day in that house, with those people. With her baby Gabriel will be safe and loved. She is his grandmother after all…
But as Melissa is making her escape, she is involved in a terrible accident which forces her into hiding. She can’t believe she’s been so careless-now she has to lay low and let the dust settle.
Gabriel’s parents won’t care where he is, they’ll be glad he’s gone but if she goes to prison who will care for the little baby? Who will keep him safe?
But caring for Gabriel is harder than Melissa imagined. Why does he keep crying? Why won’t he settle? Why does he remind her of another child she once loved…and lost?
Publisher : Boldwood Books (August 21, 2024)
Publication date : August 23, 2024
Length : 296 pages
Book Link: Hush Little Baby
This book was a dark, emotional read and hard to get through! Let me start by saying **trigger warnings!!** This book is chock full of abuse, neglect, kidnapping, mental health issues, and several instances that nearly resulted in infant death. While I do enjoy a dark and twisty plot, I found this particular book challenging to read as a mother. I was slightly caught off guard with some of the darker abusive nature of the plot and had a hard time stomaching it at times.
I love a story that plays out in different perspectives and different timelines, especially when one woman’s history gives clues to the present day woman’s plight and especially when one of those women is breaking the law! Reading a story through the eyes of a “bad-guy” is always a fun alternative to your typical underdog-hero wins the day type of thriller. This book definitely had those edge-of-your-seat layers being revealed throughout, and while I couldn’t root for our main characters, I definitely kept turning those pages, needing to know how their stories ended.
That being said, I couldn’t relate to our two main characters and didn’t find myself clinging to any kind of hopeful outcome for either of them because in my opinion both women both put their selfish desires or selfish fears before the health of the children in their care, sometimes detrimentally so. As a mother, I just couldn’t empathize with them and their apathetic or erratic choices that led them into dangerous or, I’ll even say stupid, situations.
While the overall plot of this book was not my cup of tea, I am have seen plenty of great reviews from others who loved the dark traumatic tales between these pages!
Thank you for allowing me to be a part of this virtual book tour, Rachel’s Random Resources
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J. A. Baker is a successful psychological thriller writer of numerous books. Born and brought up in Middlesbrough, she still lives in the North East, which inspires the settings for her books.
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