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Grace tells us of her inner world, where she suffers from antisocial, intrusive thoughts that involve her baby.
I found the first 50 or so pages gripping, and forgot that I was reading fiction. It felt like a memoir.
I am sure there is an audience for this book who will like it more than I did. The topic is interesting, less commonly spoken and complex.
Though, as even someone who enjoys long and detailed novels, I thought this could have been shorter and still conveyed the same and if it were more compact, the writing in the beginning would have been present all the way through.

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A very difficult book to read, but with good reason. Grace doesn’t choose to become a mother, it almost happens subconsciously with Ryan and before she knows it, she’s giving birth and going home with her baby. But the birth is the easy part, everything else she struggles with. From intrusive thoughts to irrational fears, she worries about the state of her newborn.

This was full of emotionally charged and incredibly upsetting scenes. Grace wants nothing more than to be a good mother but she’s afraid of her own mind. The writing was achingly heartbreaking, teetering on the edge of utter despair. I read this book with bated breath and I’m so happy that Grace got her happy ending.

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One of those books that just left me a little bit emotional, and possibly not ok for quite a bit of it.
So many minor moments that were quite startling, I even gasped out loud at one point.
I'm not eloquent enough to describe why, but just know it's incredibly good.

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