I got this as one of the Kindle Deals of the Day or something like that. Cheap, portable, and dark and twisty–a perfect vacation read. I read Kubica’s The Good Girl and can’t remember a darn.thing.about.it, but I know I liked it. I don’t even care how stupid that sounds…sometimes you just want a page-turner for the pool chair. I started Pretty Baby with the same expectations and it didn’t disappoint.
Heidi, a perpetual helper, sees a homeless girl with an infant on the L platform and, in time, ends up bringing her home. Hubby and tween daughter are not amused to find a mystery guest staying in their study. Turns out that Heidi may have been a bit more inclined to invest in this baby’s safety as she had always wanted more children. Unreliable narrators, hidden motives, family secrets, and dark storylines abound as we uncover the events that led Willow and Ruby to find themselves on the train platform.
People will say it’s obvious, that there are loose threads, that it could have used a solid markup from an editor’s red pen. They’d all be right. But I ate it up.
Ooh, I’m going to read this. Never heard of it before, but summer is coming and it’s the perfect time for thoughtless page turners!