Review: Little Darlings, by Melanie Golding

Little Darlings, by Melanie Golding

HarperCollins - Available - Available April 30, 2019
Thriller
e-book

336 Pages
Thank you HarperCollins for for providing a copy of this book in exchange of an honest review.

My Rating (out of 5)

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Part thriller, part dark fantasy, all good!

Lauren is a new mom to twin boys Morgan and Riley. While in hospital recovering from childbirth, she awakes in the middle of the night and is accosted by a woman who wants her babies. Lauren barricades herself in the washroom and calls the for help. When help arrives, there is no evidence that anyone had been there. It is quickly disregarded as postpartum fatigue, hormones, and emotions.

Without evidence no one believes her, but in the weeks afterwards, Lauren sees evidence of someone watching and waiting for her to let her guard down. It is clear to Lauren that only she is aware of the threat. Overwhelmed and over-tired, Lauren falls asleep in a park and wakes to find her babies missing. When the babies are returned shortly afterward, Lauren is convinced that they are not hers.

This was such a well written story.   Creepy and unsettling with an air of dark folklore, the reader is constantly examining and re-examining, I was consumed with twisting the story this way and that, wondering how the details fit into the reality. Yet Despite the story's dark undertones, the writing also has a beauty to it.  Goldberg's descriptions perfectly capture the wonder and beauty one feels in those earliest moments of parenthood when just holding a sleeping baby fills a person with awe. 

With echoes of Grimm, this story had me right from the first page and kept me wanting to read "just one more page" until I ran out pages. 

A movie based on this book is currently in the works - I look forward to it!

Happy Reading,

Christine