The Book Bag: The New Mother

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Monday, June 12, 2023

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? June 12, 2023 #IMWAYR

It's Monday! What Are You Reading? is a place to meet up and share what you have been, are and about to be reading over the week. It's an opportunity to visit other blogs and to comment on their reads. And ... you can add to that ever growing TBR pile! So welcome everyone. This meme started with J Kaye's Blog and then was taken up by Sheila from Book Journey. Sheila then passed it on to Kathryn at the Book Date. And here we are!

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Thanks for stopping by. I hope you all have a good week.

Happy reading!

What I'm currently reading

The Girls of Summer

by Katie Bishop

e-ARC

Pub date ~ June 6

The Second Chance Supper Club

by Nicole Meier

audiobook from my TBR shelf

What I recently finished

The Visitor

(The Seaside Saga #18)

by Joanne DeMaio

e-book from author for review

Read my thoughts here

The New Mother
by Nora Murphy
eARC
Read my thoughts here

Missing in Death

(In Death #29.5)

by J.D. Robb

Narrated by Susan Ericksen

audiobook from my TBR shelf

Tangled Vines

(Tales of the Scavenger's Daughters #2)

by Kay Bratt

Narrated by Kate Rudd

audiobook from my TBR shelf

What I am going to read next

The Belonger: A Novel

by Mary Kathleen Mehuron

Pub date ~ June 13

print ARC

I really love my reading life!

What are you reading this week?

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Friday, June 9, 2023

The New Mother by Nora Murphy ~ My Thoughts #TheNewMother @NoraMurphyBooks @StMartinsPress

Congrats Nora

on the recent release of

The New Mother!

The New Mother by Nora Murphy

Mystery Thriller, 336 pages

Published May 30, 2023 by Minotaur Books

A relatable and nerve-wracking, sympathetic and bone-chilling story—a fresh new twist on motherhood and murder in suburbia.

Isolated. Lonely. Tired. It's hard being The New Mother. Sometimes it's murder.

Nothing is simple about being a new mom alone in a new house, especially when your baby is collicky. Natalie Fanning loves her son unconditionally, but being a mother was not all she wanted to be.

Enter Paul, the neighbor.

Paul provides the lifeline she needs in what feels like the most desperate of times. When Paul is helping with Oliver, calmed by his reassuring, steady presence, Nat feels like she can finally rest.

But Paul wants something in return. It’s no coincidence that he has befriended Nat—she is the perfect pawn for his own plan. Will Nat wake up in time to see it?

My thoughts about The New Mother ~~

(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first lines.)

First lines—"He had never seen me before, but he knew me inside and out. He'd lived, grown, wriggled inside me for nine months. Here he was. A stranger."

'It wasn't the sort of neighborhood for murder.' That was the tag line in the promos I had seen for this book, and it was also at the beginning of the book. So of course, that line drew me in and made me want to know more.

As Natalie tries to settle in as a new mother with a colicky, demanding baby, the nice stay-at-home father who just lives down the street comes to her rescue and seems to be her lifeline to sanity. Motherhood is hard and to have someone to lean on is a god-send. As she comes to depend on him more and more, things take a turn, and maybe their friendship isn't what she thought it was.

The New Mother was intense as I tried to figure out who was going to die, and how it was going to go down. I kept setting up scenarios for a murder and then I would be wrong. The ending was very satisfying and the last sentence? Wow, just wow! Is she serious?

I received a copy of The New Mother from the publisher via NetGalley and this is my honest opinion.

About the author

Nora Murphy attended law school in Washington, D.C., then worked as a judicial law clerk before transitioning to private practice. A practicing attorney, Nora writes as much as she can, usually long before the sunrise or on her phone while holding her infant son. Nora resides in Maryland with her husband, children, and five rescue pets.

Connect with Nora

Website | Goodreads | Instagram | Twitter

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