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Good Bad Mother by Anya Mora
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.5
Good Bad Mother by Anya Mora
Pub Date 2/17/2025 Narrated by Lauryn Allman, Penelope Rawlins
Amelia on the outside has a perfect life and is a stay-at-home mom with a beautiful baby girl. She met the perfect man and after a quick whirlwind romance became pregnant and they got married. Timothy is successful, handsome, a hard worker, and comes from one of the wealthiest families in the country. After they got married, they moved into her dream home on an exclusive island that only the rich can afford which means she also lived across from her new in-laws. A mother-in-law who didn't hide her distaste for her since she didn't grow up alongside these elite people and did not condone their relationship or the quick wedding due to her pregnancy. As a matter of fact, Timothy and his family knew next to nothing about her life, and she planned to keep it that way. Although the past seems to not stay a secret no matter how hard you try. If Timothy and his snobby family found out about her past, she would lose everything.
The truth is, Amelia isn't the perfect wife. She isn't the perfect mother, and it seems up until now, she is no longer the perfect liar. When her past comes back to haunt her, the perfect life she tried so hard to get starts crumbling all around her. When her true name comes out and what she has been running from since she was eighteen comes crashing back to haunt her.
This was a slower-paced story about a woman who was desperate to run away from a horrible past and make a new life for herself. It goes through the struggles of being a new mother in a relatively new relationship that came with horrible in-laws and the stress she carries trying to keep her past a secret. As the story progresses, a few people are suspicious of the possible main antagonist as the poor woman had many people wishing her to fail and I appreciated the surprise of who was harassing her for weeks and how the story ended. It was an easy read and finished it in one day.
I would like to thank Netgalley for the opportunity to listen to the audiobook before its release on 2/17/2025 in exchange for an honest review.
Pub Date 2/17/2025 Narrated by Lauryn Allman, Penelope Rawlins
Amelia on the outside has a perfect life and is a stay-at-home mom with a beautiful baby girl. She met the perfect man and after a quick whirlwind romance became pregnant and they got married. Timothy is successful, handsome, a hard worker, and comes from one of the wealthiest families in the country. After they got married, they moved into her dream home on an exclusive island that only the rich can afford which means she also lived across from her new in-laws. A mother-in-law who didn't hide her distaste for her since she didn't grow up alongside these elite people and did not condone their relationship or the quick wedding due to her pregnancy. As a matter of fact, Timothy and his family knew next to nothing about her life, and she planned to keep it that way. Although the past seems to not stay a secret no matter how hard you try. If Timothy and his snobby family found out about her past, she would lose everything.
The truth is, Amelia isn't the perfect wife. She isn't the perfect mother, and it seems up until now, she is no longer the perfect liar. When her past comes back to haunt her, the perfect life she tried so hard to get starts crumbling all around her. When her true name comes out and what she has been running from since she was eighteen comes crashing back to haunt her.
This was a slower-paced story about a woman who was desperate to run away from a horrible past and make a new life for herself. It goes through the struggles of being a new mother in a relatively new relationship that came with horrible in-laws and the stress she carries trying to keep her past a secret. As the story progresses, a few people are suspicious of the possible main antagonist as the poor woman had many people wishing her to fail and I appreciated the surprise of who was harassing her for weeks and how the story ended. It was an easy read and finished it in one day.
I would like to thank Netgalley for the opportunity to listen to the audiobook before its release on 2/17/2025 in exchange for an honest review.