Title: Pretty Baby
Author: Mary Kubica
Rating: 5/5
Book: 43/50
Pages: 371 pgs
Total Pages: 16,172 pages
Version: Book
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I devoured this book! The fact that I read this book in two days while in the middle of a massive reading slump should speak volumes about how much I enjoyed this book! Maybe this is the book that will bring me out of my slump!
I have read Kubica’s two books and I have loved them both. Despite being a new author, Kubica tells a story like she is a veteran of the trade. This book kept me turning pages right to the very end. I highly recommend both this book as well as Kubica’s debut novel, The Good Girl if you are looking for a psychological thriller.
About the Book:
She sees the teenage girl on the train platform, standing in the pouring rain, clutching an infant in her arms. She boards a train and is whisked away. But she can’t get the girl out of her head…
Heidi Wood has always been a charitable woman: she works for a nonprofit, takes in stray cats. Still, her husband and daughter are horrified when Heidi returns home one day with a young woman named Willow and her four-month-old baby in tow. Disheveled and apparently homeless, this girl could be a criminal—or worse. But despite her family’s objections, Heidi invites Willow and the baby to take refuge in their home.
Heidi spends the next few days helping Willow get back on her feet, but as clues into Willow’s past begin to surface, Heidi is forced to decide how far she’s willing to go to help a stranger. What starts as an act of kindness quickly spirals into a story far more twisted than anyone could have anticipated.
The World According to Me, Myself and I! 