The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry Book Review

Book Synopsis: A page-turning debut of suspense about a young couple desperate to have a child of their own—and the unsettling consequences of getting what they always wanted.

Christopher and Hannah are a happily married surgeon and nurse with picture-perfect lives. All that’s missing is a child. When Janie, an abandoned six-year-old, turns up at their hospital, Christopher forms an instant connection with her, and he convinces Hannah they should take her home as their own.

But Janie is no ordinary child, and her damaged psyche proves to be more than her new parents were expecting. Janie is fiercely devoted to Christopher, but she acts out in increasingly disturbing ways, directing all her rage at Hannah. Unable to bond with Janie, Hannah is drowning under the pressure, and Christopher refuses to see Janie’s true nature.

Hannah knows that Janie is manipulating Christopher and isolating him from her, despite Hannah’s attempts to bring them all together. But as Janie’s behavior threatens to tear Christopher and Hannah apart, the truth behind Janie’s past may be enough to push them all over the edge.

Genre: Thriller 😈

Pace: Medium

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Format: Audiobook🎧

Length: 10 hours, 15 minutes

🎙️Narrator: Christine Williams, Erin Bennett, Dan John Miller

What to Expect👇🏼

🎢 twists and turns
📖 short chapters
🔪 whodunnit
👥 multiple POVs

💭 Review: “This book was dark! I think I need to stay away from these child books because they make me HELLA paranoid😅

I actually listened to the second half of this book in the car with my husband who hadn’t read the first half and he was HOOKED. We had to sit in the car for 10 minutes to finish it even though we made it to our destination! That’s a sign of a good book.

This was spooky, scary, dark, twisty, and all the things you’d want a thriller to be!

One thing I will say is Lucinda’s books to me tend to all feel the same in some way or another. It’s like watching Hallmark movies, they’re different but the same?

Overall, it’s still a good read!”

Have you read this one? What did you think?👇🏼

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