Print Length: 310 pages
Publisher: Bookouture (February 19, 2025)
From Goodreads.com: Someone stole my little boy. I’ll do whatever it takes to get him back…
Staring down at the sweet baby in my arms, I feel panic instead of love. Because this isn’t the child I gave birth to. My husband whispers to the midwife. They all think I’m going crazy. But the tiny boy in my arms is crying again. I’m he knows I’m not his mummy. And I’ll do whatever it takes to get my son back.
I did it. I swapped my baby with another newborn in the hospital. As I hold the child in my arms, I hear my own little boy start to cry on the other side of the curtain. My heart is shattering into a million pieces.
I know I had no choice. I didn’t want to do this. But no one can ever find out the reason why I swapped my baby. Because if anyone knew the truth, my life and my child’s life would be in danger…
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My Rating: 1 star out of 5
I am beginning to think that 2025 will be the year that I read every non-thrilling "thriller" novel that has been published, as once again I was drawn in by a promising synopsis only to be let down by the story itself.
To begin with, when it comes to our two female leads Jade and Avril, not only are they unlikable, but the majority of their interactions are just completely implausible. Let's overlook for a moment the fact that Avril is right about what Jade has done. Why is it so incomprehensible to her that Jade might not want anything to do with her after the things that happened between them seven years prior? Avril convinces herself that Jade must be up to something (and it is then that she also convinces herself that Jade must have swapped their babies in the hospital) because Jade obviously recognized both her and Bobby (the man Avril stole from her), so why did Jade keep to herself when their beds were next to each other in the hospital? How could she just easily let things go and not make a scene? It was mind blowing how Avril thought so highly of herself, even though up until this book she kept saying how much she had changed from the person she was. Obviously not, if she still thinks so highly of herself that she cannot possibly fathom the fact that Jade had moved on. I mean, Jade had just given birth as well why wasn't that a clue to the fact that she didn't care?
Of course, Avril only figures out who Jade is after snooping through files that should have been private to find her home address and show up unwelcome and unannounced simply because when they met the first time Jade "acted suspicious" and then gave her a false phone number. Why couldn't Avril simply take the hint that for whatever reason this young, single mother did not want to be friends with her?
And that ending. Good heavens! The only thing shocking about that was that the police didn't do a more thorough investigation to find out the truth when it should have been plain as day, simply accepting things at face value and looking no deeper for what actually happened.
Do you know what would have made a shocking twist? If Jade had somehow managed to conspire with someone to swap the babies again just long enough for the DNA test to be done so that when the results came back, it would have made Avril look even crazier than her husband and the police were already beginning to suspect she was.
And on that note, do you know what would have made the story better? If there had actually been a reason for the swap other than revenge. As the synopsis said, if anyone found out the truth both Jade and her son's lives would have been in danger, however that simply wasn't the case at all. Also, I would have loved to have seen the subplot of Bobby, the midwife, and the police all thinking there was something wrong with Avril's mental health more fully fleshed out. There was the potential there that was just never, in my opinion, realized.
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