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sbiggart 's review for:
The Second Mother
by Jenny Milchman
Did I like this book? That’s a really good question. For the first half I would’ve said a definitive no so much so that I almost didn’t finish it. But I struggled through and the back half had enough redeeming qualities for me to give this three stars. My largest complaints? First, this book was positioned as a thriller with lots of ominous world building in the first two hundred pages but really nothing thrilling ever happening. Second, this book tried to do to much, 15 pages on Julie’s husband returning guilt ridden that he’d given his baby too much Benadryl the night before she died? Death by a thousand cuts. Lastly the idea of Julie and Mrs Hampstead (at minimum a middle aged if not elderly woman) physically fighting in the water at the end? I don’t buy it. My feelings about this book are (clearly) complicated but maybe it works better for others.