Title: Replaced
Author: Nolon King with Lauren Street
Publisher: Sterling and Stone
Pages: 346
My GoodReads Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐
I was intrigued by the
premise of this book and the writing was good enough to hold my interest.
Jessica Clarke has the perfect life with husband David. And now that David has a new job, and they've bought a new house, things are even better. What makes their life even more perfect is that they've just adopted a baby girl. All of one week, she's their joy, and they've named her Gwen.
Jessica, afraid of
flying, drives a U-haul with her belongings from New York to Dallas. David has already flown to their new home with Gwen. Tired and exhausted, Jessica reaches the house only to find that the keys that David has given her don't work. What's worse, there's another woman, a lookalike of hers, in the house, and she's claiming to be Jessica Clarke, David’s
wife, who is bonding with her baby, who she calls Bella. The worst thing is that David claims he
doesn’t know her, that he has never seen her before.
Now David and the other woman have called in the police and Jessica is hauled in. How will she ever get her home and baby back?
The story is written in the
3rd person PoV of both Jessicas in alternate chapters. In order to
ensure clarity for us readers, the authors refer to the first woman as Jessica,
and the second as Jess.
It’s not hard to figure out
the plot, but to the credit of the authors, they make us feel invested in spite
of that. The action just doesn’t let up.
The only problem lies in their description of Baby
Gwen/Bella. The authors clearly don’t
know anything about babies. Earlier on, Jessica things she hears the week-old
baby chuckling. When the baby is still just a week old, she is shown to sleep
calmly through the night for many hours straight. In Chapter 44, the baby is
still less than a month old, and yet she plays with blocks and stuffed animals
while still an infant. Any parent will tell you that playing with blocks is not
a newborn’s thing. The baby claps too. Either it’s an issue that will get
corrected or the authors have no idea what babies can or cannot do.
Other than this, it was a fun read.
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