in the world can you create a thriller in the setting of a posh preschool However, this is exactly what Sara Shepard concocted! Three moms from very different backgrounds find themselves surrounded by a mystery.
. . who attacked the head of the preschool their children attend The answers that are revealed will leave you stunned! I loved the friendship that the moms formed and their support of one another along with the twists in the storyline! I have a special spot in my heart for sitelinkSara Shepard.
I love Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game, So I was pretty excited when I spotted this new one,
And I loved it, I like that you have Lauren, Ronnie and Andrea's each separate POV, It helped give us the whole story and give more clues, I loved each girl separately for what they brought to the story and their own struggles, I love how they found each other spiking the drinks was hilarious! and I love how they found a friendship in the midst of all the craziness.
I thought the bad guy was a little obvious but I didn't mind going through the story.
I did find a lot of the ending a surprise though and the twists I didn't see coming.
It's almost set up like there could be more story here and, if there was, I would definitely read it.
I love these three!!
A huge thank you to the author and publisher for providing an eARC via Netgalley.
This does not affect my opinion regarding the book, Piper left a toxic relationship, moved to Raisin Beach with her young son, Struggling, she stumbled upon a nursery school in need of a Director and she never looked back.
Until her attempted murder.
It's one of those painful school events a brunch to start the new school year at the swanky, super expensive Silver Swans Nursery.
Moms already established in cliques, Andrea takes out some Bailey's for her coffee, Ronnie and Lauren drift over also looking lost and alone, Each has her own secrets,
Lauren struggles with post partum rage Andrea is transitioning Ronnie escaped Jarrod,
These women each have something to offer we can all sympathize, seeing ourselves in their issues and complex lives.
This plot is well written, great suspense and the ending was well done,.Sara Shepard, the YA phenomenon author of Pretty Little Liars, returns with a new book for adults a rather dark mysterious novel about the struggle of motherhood and the lengths a mother will go to protect their child.
The story centers on three mothers: Lauren, Andrea, and Ronnie who have all enrolled there child a fancy preschool called Silver Swans and at orientation bond over slipping some alcohol into each others coffee cups, and striking up a friendship.
Then the director of the school is found with blood pooled around her head and the three mothers standing nearby.
The book started off strong, and then it became a bit of a slow burn.
I really empathized with the character Ronnie and the back story she had with the challenges and demons in her life, but didnt relate as much with Andrea and Lauren.
I thought there characters werent very likable, The novel has some nice twists and turns that will keep you flipping the pages,
I definitely enjoyed the book and highly recommend it,
Safe In My Arms is written in the third person narrative with alternating chapters ofdifferent women: Lauren, Ronnie, Andrea, and Piper.
Set in a fictional affluent California beachside town called Raisin Beach, the story revolves around an elite preschool called Silver Swans and the events following a violent attack against the school's director.
Lauren, Ronnie, and Andrea are all new to the school and form a friendship at the Welcome Breakfast as outcasts amongst the quintessential wealthy parents.
Each woman has their own shady past and secrets, willing to do anything to keep the truth from coming out.
Can they trust each other when they all become suspects in a crime
Safe In My Arms reminded me of Big Little Lies except.
. . it was nowhere near as good, The synopsis was promising but I found the plot to be extremely boring and too predictable which is just sacrilegious for a thriller.
I love multiple POV in a 'whodunit' mystery but there was almost too much going on in this one, so I never got invested into any characters.
There were some promising elements and if it wrapped up differently I think I would have enjoyed it but that ending was a huge disappointment.
Sara Shepard is the author of the Pretty Little Liars series and The Lying Game series, I can't
compare much since I've never read them.
She's a great writer, my issue was strictly with the plot, If you're a fan of her YA novels, I'd say give it a shot but this one is a pass for me.
Thank you NetGalley and Dutton for an advanced copy of this book in exchange fot my honest review.
The book is about three moms who are newcomers to this area, It's this very exclusive but madeup area in California, They become unlikely friends and are keeping some secrets from the community that is all very poignant, have something to do with motherhood and how they came to be mothers.
They unwittingly get involved in this scandal and are blamed for this event that happens, Over time, the story unravels what those scandals are and the secrets of the community and the school.
I loved how the author set the scene at this crazy, now toneddown, postrecession time at the school.
She pokes fun at the things that are no longer there, like the catering and the hors d'oeuvres.
Yet, there are these three new moms sneaking Baileys in the corner,
One early passage stuck out to me this is not a spoiler!, "She hurried into the bathroom.
At the mirror, she leaned in close and inspected the lines on her face and the nakedness of her featuresa swipe of lipstick here, a blot of concealer there.
'Hang on, let me put on my face for the day,' her mother Cynthia used to say.
When she was a teenager, Cynthia's boudoir became Andrea's favorite guilty pleasure, beholding her mom's giant vanity of colors, labels, scents, all those private hours of slathering and puffing and brushing and then hastily wiping it all off when she heard her mother's key in the door down the long, long hall because back then, Andrea wasn't a girl in her mother's eyes.
Andrea was her mother's son, " I admit I had not gotten a glimpse of that twist until the sentence,
To listen to my interview with the author, go to my podcast at:
sitelink com/transcript/sar .