The Perfect Mother 🌝🌝🌝🌜
by Aimee Molloy
Published May 1 2018 by Harper
A story bound to confuse even the sharpest reader for a little while, based on the mystery introduced in Chapter One. You'll follow a Mommy group, called the May Mothers because they are all due in May, as these progressive over-achievers share their pregnancy stories on line and then birthing sagas in person. Five or six weeks into their momhood they decide it's time finally for a lady's night out at a local bar, a break from the craziness, and it goes horribly wrong when one of their babies is kidnapped while mommies are cavorting and getting drunk. The police follow their leads, which I honestly could not follow at all, while the moms form their own theories and red herrings. All the while they are bombarded with emails on where their kiddies are supposed to be in their development, which wore thin on me, probably because I have never given birth myself. In the end I solved the crime just before the author revealed it, so the conclusion made perfect sense and wrapped up nicely, IMO.
It was a good read for me, and most likely readers who are mothers will have even more enthusiasm for the lactation and lack of sleep stories.
I just won a printed book from Book Riot (which hasn't yet arrived) and the audio version through Libro.fm, so I listened to this as soon as it was available.
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