What a fun cover. It doesn't quite prepare you for the darkness of this book, but it's enticing.
You should of course, be prepared for the darkness, if you're familiar with any of the author's work. I read her debut novel when it came out. Wasn't as wowed by it as most, but it was interesting enough to check out Moulton's latest. Same reaction - not a wow by any means but interesting. Compelling bleak and lean enough to get through in less than a day. But seriously, how much mommy/baby horror can there be? I know it's all the rage, so everyone's doing it, but please, enough already. Yes, Tantrum is a cleverer, metaphorical take on it than most, but come on ... Can we change the subject? Must popular media be so beholden to cliches, revisited over and over again? Just think how many original stories are falling by the wayside while everyone's clamoring for more of the same. Outside of the depressing commentary on the state of publishing and reading audiences, this was a decent, quick work of psychological horror and a strong entry into the dramatically overpopulated subgenre. Thanks Netgalley.
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