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The Stay-at-Home Mother
by Nicole Trope
adventurous
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Thank you NetGalley, Bookouture and Nicole Trope for letting me read “The Stay-at-Home-Mother” in exchange for an honest review.
Andrea and her husband Terry are moving into a new house. Andrea is heavily pregnant and feels overwhelmed. Her young son Jack keeps her busy and so is the new house. A family that is trying to get back into their feet. Andrea befriends her neighbour Gabby, a stay-at-home-mom, mother of a teenager.
One day the unthinkable happens. Jack is gone. Pouf! The police arrives. A voice message is left on Andrea’s phone. A woman claims, that the picture of Jack she posted on an international missing children’s page, is her son.
What on earth? How can that be?
Is Jack really Andrea’s son? Jos can an American woman know him?
How about the pictures, whose boy is in the picture?
Where is Jack and will they get him back safe?
What’s up with the kind of creepy neighbour, Gabby?! How are the women collected? Is Gabby as nice as she seems to be?
This was a fairly quick read. The story picks up really soon and throws a lot of red herrings at you. What’s up with husband Terry, shady much?! And Gabby’s husband Richard, who works overseas a lot… also shady?! Gabby herself? A lot of questions, right away. But the story has a good pace, you have no time to wonder for a long time. It swept me away. I kind of had an early guess about the ending, so it did not completely catch me by surprise, but that’s perfectly fine!
Moms like Gabby just annoy me, the kind that micro manages and knows better than anyone else. Sorry, that’s just me.
This is my second novel by Nicole Trope and I really like her style. The characters are easy to relate to and you’ll love to hate them. She will be on my radar for sure!
Andrea and her husband Terry are moving into a new house. Andrea is heavily pregnant and feels overwhelmed. Her young son Jack keeps her busy and so is the new house. A family that is trying to get back into their feet. Andrea befriends her neighbour Gabby, a stay-at-home-mom, mother of a teenager.
One day the unthinkable happens. Jack is gone. Pouf! The police arrives. A voice message is left on Andrea’s phone. A woman claims, that the picture of Jack she posted on an international missing children’s page, is her son.
What on earth? How can that be?
Is Jack really Andrea’s son? Jos can an American woman know him?
How about the pictures, whose boy is in the picture?
Where is Jack and will they get him back safe?
What’s up with the kind of creepy neighbour, Gabby?! How are the women collected? Is Gabby as nice as she seems to be?
This was a fairly quick read. The story picks up really soon and throws a lot of red herrings at you. What’s up with husband Terry, shady much?! And Gabby’s husband Richard, who works overseas a lot… also shady?! Gabby herself? A lot of questions, right away. But the story has a good pace, you have no time to wonder for a long time. It swept me away. I kind of had an early guess about the ending, so it did not completely catch me by surprise, but that’s perfectly fine!
Moms like Gabby just annoy me, the kind that micro manages and knows better than anyone else. Sorry, that’s just me.
This is my second novel by Nicole Trope and I really like her style. The characters are easy to relate to and you’ll love to hate them. She will be on my radar for sure!