I loved this book. It's a creepy, dark supernatural thriller with believable characters that keep you guessing until the end.

The story flowed so well that before I knew it, I'd read half of the book without lifting my head once. I enjoyed reading it so much that I was disappointed when I finished as I wanted to experience it all over again.

An excellent first novel by a very talented writer.

At first this book is a little bit of a slow starter. It would be easy to give up however it is worth staying with it. It’s a wonderful/lovely story. The author takes on a journey of the unknown.
Thank you to both NetGalley and HQ for my ARC of this book in exchange for my honest unbiased review.

I think I was expecting more from this, more thriller or more supernatural. Didn’t seem to get either. I felt it focused more on the woman Sergeant, which makes me think she could be in future books. I wanted more spookiness from the babies. It was an ok read.

Thanks to Melanie Golding and HQ books for the opportunity to read and review this book. Little Darlings will have you second guessing till the last page. What happens when a young mum become overwrought taking care of her new born twins. There is a fine line between sane and insane. What is real and what is imagined. The book delves into fairy folklore and will have the most practical of readers wondering what's behind the mystery.

Was rather surprised that this was a debut novel, Golding knows how to write a page turner with a nice balance of suspense and creepy moments. Definitely liked the angle she took with changeling folklore which I've seen go horribly wrong in other content, making the implausible and preposterous, a fun, as well as thrilling read.

With thanks to Netgalley and Harpercollins for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

No locations in this one - well, vaguely in the Peak District but the themes are interesting! Changelings and all the mysteries and legends that go with that. A woman worried that her children aren't really hers, that someone has come and replaced....

It's all a bit crazy and if you're a new mother, or about to be one - especially of twins, I wouldn't go anywhere near this! It's creepy, unsettling and set to make you paranoid.

It's inspired by the Welsh tale of The Brewery of Egghshells where a woman leaves her twin babies alone for a time and sees elves cross her path on her return. The babies looks the same but won't grow. So, she starts to believe they are changelings....

There's plenty of legends dotted about the book which pepper the story with even more legends and myths to keep you wondering and the main mother of the story seriously judging her own sanity.

I'm not usually a fan of these 'baby novels' but this one stands out for unique premise!

I had heard lots of things about this book on Twitter and was delighted to get an early copy through Netgalley. My thanks to the publishers.

Little Darlings starts off, in my opinion, at a slow pace. Building up the tension and drawing the reader in gradually. I’m not a fan of fantasy, fairytales or folklore normally, but this book has possibly changed my mind.

Lauren is a new mother to twin boys, emotional, exhausted and hormonal she is “visited” in the hospital by a woman who wants to take her twins and replace them with her own. Reporting this to the police, no one believes her and Lauren’s mental health and sanity is now being questioned.

Without giving away the storyline, up to this point in the book it was a standard psychological thriller but then something happens and it freaked me the f*ck out. From that point onwards the book becomes creepy, downright disturbing and very, very dark. There’s something unsettling about babies behaving in a way which is unnatural and frightening and when there are twins involved it becomes doubly disturbing.

Overall, I thought this was a creepy and dark story which was unsettling but very addictive.