Print Length: 267 pages
Publisher: Bookouture (September 27, 2024)
From Goodreads.com: I brought her home from the hospital. But she wasn’t mine to take…
All I’ve ever wanted is to be a mother. And as I look into the beautiful, bright blue eyes of this baby tucked up in her blanket, I can’t wait to bring her home with me. Everyone doubted me, but I know I’m ready now. I’m going to give this sweet child the perfect life.
Stepping into the cold air outside of the hospital doors, a shiver runs through me. I know my life will never be the same again. I slip off her little white medical bracelet and put it in the pocket of my jeans. She’s mine now, I smile, picking up the pace.
I know this little baby is safe in my arms. That I deserve her. That I should do everything in my power to keep her. Even if she wasn’t mine to take...
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My Rating: 1 star out of 5
After seeing all of the four and give star reviews that were given to this novel, I have to wonder if I either read something different than the others, or perhaps if my standards are just a lot higher than other casual readers.
To begin with the plot is utterly impossible unless things are done much differently in the UK (where this book takes place). There is no way a woman would be able to just push as plastic bassinet with a child out of the doors of a maternity ward with no one noticing no matter how busy the nurses were. This is partly because all of the babies are equipped with monitors that would sound an alarm if they crossed through the doors, and also partly because the ward doors have to be opened from inside at the nurses station. Not to mention the fact that because the child was born via EMERGENCY c-section, she would have been taken straight to the neonatal unit for monitoring and kept there at least until the mother had not only awoken from the anesthesia, but also be able to move all of their limbs, so there is no way the baby could have been taken before she even made it out of recovery.
That glaring point aside, none of these characters were even remotely likable by any stretch of the imagination (although at least at the end we understand the reason Jo was so closed off from Elise). Maya would have been more tolerable if she would stop constantly saying that she acting as a surrogate as a form of "atonement" for something that had happened in the past (which spoiler alert, wasn't even her fault to begin with, just something she chose to punish herself for). As for Nina and Will (the couple who were supposed to be getting Maya's baby), I could not help but laugh every time they appeared with more ridiculous demands, or freaking out over the smallest of things. Seriously, is it so inconceivable that a woman who is in the last stages of pregnancy needs their rest?
Then there was the ending that wasn't. I mean obviously the book ended, but there was absolutely nothing resolved and no closure for the characters making me wonder why I wasted as much time as I did, slogging through it to begin with.
Honestly, I think that had this story not dragged on as much as it did with the same plot points being driven home over and over, and had an actual ending that felt appropriate, it would have made for a much more interesting read.
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