Goodreads Monday Pick
I’ve been posting the newest book on my “To Read” list that I’m excited about – so this week was almost The Rom-Commers by Katherine Center. But I decided to look through my TBR and choose a book that’s been there for a while but is coming out sometime in the next few months. That book is Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering – a combination of Women’s Fiction and Psyc Thriller story. There are TWs for this book, which you can find here: trigger warnings, but it also has many stellar reviews.
Book Blurb
A missing baby. A fraught friendship. A secret that can never be told.
On a brisk fall night in a New York apartment, 35-year-old Billie West hears terrified screams. It’s her lifelong best friend Cassie Barnwell, one floor above, and she’s just realized her infant daughter has gone missing. Billie is shaken as she looks down into her own arms to see the baby, remembering—with a jolt of fear—that she is responsible for the kidnapping that has instantly shattered Cassie’s world.
So begins the story of Billie and Cassie’s friendship–both in recent weeks, and since they met twenty-three years ago, in their small Hudson Valley hometown the summer before seventh grade. Once fiercely bonded by their secrets, including a traumatic, unspeakable incident in high school, Cassie and Billie have drifted apart in adulthood, no longer the inseparable pair they used to be. Cassie is married to a wealthy man, has recently become a mother, and is building a following as a fashion and lifestyle influencer. She is desperate to leave her past behind–including Billie, who is single and childless, and no longer fits into her world. Hurt and rejected by Cassie’s new priorities, Billie will do anything to restore their friendship, even as she hides the truth about what really happened the night the baby was taken.
Told in alternating perspectives in Lovering’s signature suspenseful style, Bye Baby confronts the myriad ways friendships change and evolve over time, the lingering echoes of childhood trauma, and the impact of women’s choices on their lifelong relationships.
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10 responses to “Goodreads Monday| Bye Baby by Carola Lovering”
Great going with your Goodreads Challenge!
So far so good!
I think I’m already ahead on my Goodreads challenge also – or I will be when I add two reviews later today. Have a great week, Tessa!
You too!
Bye, Baby is a great choice, one I’m excited about, too!
It sounds so good. I’m sure it’s intense but that usually reads very fast.
Bye Baby sounds like an emotional book.
I want to read something by Katherine Centre. Maybe one day 😂.
I like the look of Not Your Crushes Cauldron.
Have a great week!
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You’d like a Katherine Center romcom. They are very good. And I think Not Your Crushes Cauldron’s going to end up being quite a fun read. I read book 2 in the trilogy and loved it.
I’m not sure about this one given the trigger warnings, but I expect it will be a page-turner.
Yeah, it’ll definitely be pretty intense and so many TWs. The list is much longer than I expected.