I know this was a widely publicized release but it was just strange and unenjoyable. I would not be recommending this to readers.

Absolutely gripping. I was unnerved and addicted at the same time. Would make an excellent book for book clubs and unique thriller recommendations. We ordered several copies for our library collection!

I am so sorry but this book was not for me. I DNF it at 30% after 2 weeks of picking it up and putting it down to read something else I just lost all interest but I do recommend you read it for your self!

OH WOW YES! Well this was so amazingly creepeculiar!

BEST THRILLER/HORROR I read in 2018!

This book would be an awesome horror/thriller movie!

At first, I was like… Huh? I don’t like it. Nun-huh. I don’t.

A few pages later, I was like... Hummmm.... I’m liking this!

Halfway in I was like… OH WOW YES!

This is a very unique book so if you think you don't like it, I suggest you give it a few more pages. You may end up LOVING it, like me. :)

Expect…

- Two very distinct and strong voices. A child and her mother.
- A third-person deep POV so good you’ll feel you ARE these two characters!
- A fascinating and downright creepy mother-child relationship.
- An even creepier and unique villain. This villain is just so unexpected, manipulative and creepilicious! The entire book you’ll be obsessively wondering WHY she is so evil and WHAT’s next????. OMG WHAT is she going to do now?
- Enthralling emotional and psychological imagery. To be captive in the minds of this befuddle and abashed mother and her child is such a psychological treat! trip! Especially the little devil’s mind! It’s just total lunacy, pure evil! Awesomely evil! This is delivered through tons of inner monologue and backstory but they are told in such an engrossing way you won’t be bored!

One of my favorites of 2018. An empathetic mother pulls the reader into this story, leading to a straight-up ambush by an unequivocally evil child unlike any I've ever seen in print. Creepy and brilliant, this page-turner is nothing short of genius.

Oy I never wished so much ill on a child before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DNF. This was just so repetitive and dour. I couldn't connect to anything or anyone, and I just didn't care what was going to happen.

I really had to push myself to read the beginning of this book, but as I got further in the story, I was addicted. This book screams sequel.

This book was intense! Suzette had her work cute out for her from the very beginning with Hanna. This is one of the creepiest, most insanely good books I've read in a long time. It was like being on a roller coaster from the first page. I would be lying if I said I didn't start looking at children very differently while reading this. It was dark, disturbing and amazing!

This book was great! I didn’t want it to end. Parts of it creeped me out, and I am pretty hard to creep out! I hope there will be a sequel! It was fascinating switching points of view and Hanna, the child was very interesting. A few times I felt bad for her, but most of the time I was hoping she would get caught. I’m not sure what to think of Suzette the mom. The father I wanted to punch much of the time. Great book!

Suzette has a hard time really loving her little girl, Hannah. That’s fucked up, right? But she feels a little bit vindicated when Hannah says she becomes another person while the devil comes to her. Dad doesn’t understand anything, but he loves Hannah, and he wants Suzette to try harder to love her too. Which is lucky for Hannah because she reeaalllly loves Daddy. I mean, really. She wants him all to herself. So there is a lot of oddball shit going on, and I thought it was going to be really gimmicky, but turns out it was absolutely incredible and a pleasure to be horrified by Zoje Stage.

Hmm. For someone who adores We Need to Talk About Kevin, you would think that a book modelled after it would shoot straight to the top of my favourites list. But, you would be wrong.
Like, really really really wrong.
There was no thrill, no suspense. Just the maniacal mutterings of a seven-year-old with an evil masterplan. Oh, and far too much focus on Crohn's which, as a person that deals with a chronic stomach condition, really turned my stomach. No one who deals with these things want to read about them, okay? It's like dead parents in badly-written young adult fiction.
But, the problems didn't stop there. Oh no. On top of my entirely subjective qualms, the writing wasn’t very good, the chapters from the child’s view really missed the mark (it was aiming for a mix of violence and childhood innocence that belayed something ominous lurking under the surface but to be honest, it just came off as nonsensical and over-written) and the relationship between the mother and child just felt far too far-fetched to be even close to believable.
I mean, Ed Kemper and his mother had a better relationship than these two main characters did.

This book!!! So I saw that this book was described as a mixture of We Need to Talk About Kevin and The Omen and some other book----but they had me at We Need to Talk About Kevin (truly disturbing book if you haven't read it). I REALLY enjoyed this book. "Evil" kids are the stuff of nightmares and this story is a great one! When I was a kid I watched "The Bad Seed" with my mom many times and I always wondered if it was true....are some kids "born bad?" Here we are again asking the same question. Great book----I'd just love to know more!!!

This. Book. Messed. Me. Up. The front blurb describes it as WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN meets GONE GIRL meets THE OMEN and that feels pretty accurate.

Hanna believes that her mom is a bad witch, that has cast a spell on her dad and stops him from spending as much time with Hanna or giving her all of his love. Suzette believes her daughter Hanna is trying to kill her. Suzette is right.

The perfectly paced suspense carries this book as readers constantly wonder whether Hanna or Suzette will succeed in this battle. This book carries all of the gothic fear of the domestic, the idea that perhaps the home is the most dangerous place of all. Killer kids aside, Stage thoughtfully explores the complexities of parenthood/motherhood and the way parenting changes the relationship between spouses. This is, at it's core, a novel about how families are hard and how we have to fight for love and how we often must make hard decisions in order to keep that love intact.

Also the ending will want to make you sleep with the lights on.

I was given a free copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for a fair and unbiased review.

Honestly, the tag line got me and that rarely happens. This book sounded so so interesting from the get go. I would definitely classify this book as "un-put-down-able" because once you started you really had to know what exactly happened. I knocked a point off just for the ending because I wanted more and I think I was a tad bit let down by the conflict resolution.

Baby Teeth was the book I couldn't wait to sink my teeth into, the premise had me intrigued and I thought it would be my favorite read of the summer, but it was lackluster for me and did not hold my interest long enough to know the characters more, or find out what happened until the end. I did like the writing style, but there was something about this story that I just didn't care to finish reading.

An absolutely delightfully creepy book. In the beginning I couldn't tell if the mother was a horrible, crazy person or if the child truly was evil. Such an unsettling book...I loved it!

Thank you to the author and NetGalley for an opportunity to review this book. After reading the synopsis I thought this would be one I couldn’t put down. I got through a few chapters and just couldn’t connect with the main characters! I would love to give this author another try again some day, but sadly, this one wasn’t something I personally could read.

DNF @ 10%

I struggled to finish this, and I’m not sure I can explain why. I guess I was expecting a little more from the story. It did have some creepy parts, but mostly it was just okay.

I was on the fence pretty hard about this book. I thought the description was interesting (love a good creepy kid character) but found myself not really into the story for the first third of the novel. The reason was Hanna.

Hanna is such an odd character. At first, I was very suspicious of her as a point-of-view character, thinking that it didn't make any sense to know (or be able to guess well at) what she was planning next. Her voice in those chapters is so...different. It's hard to place but not child-like. But I stuck through it because I really liked the chapters from Suzette.

Then, something weird started to happen. Hanna started to grow on me, not in a I-like-her kinda way but in a way where her view of the world and her wording of things started to make sense to me as a reader. By the end of the book, I was more fascinated with her than ever. Usually characters don't have this big of a turn-around for me but Hanna is such a unique character that she won me over in the end.

And I started to see the reasoning behind her POV being included. It really upped the suspense to watch for her next move after Hanna hints about it in her own head. Even when she straight-up tells the reader what she's going to do, it's still terrifying when it happens. And my gosh, that one scene at the end with the pit (I won't say more!) was absolutely horrifying, as was the chat with Beatriz. The end too, it left me dying (not literally Hanna!) to know more.

All in all, an amazingly horrific thrill ride that I would recommend to anyone who wants to be thoroughly creeped out and be extra cautious around kids for a few days.

Note: I received a free Kindle edition of this novel via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. I would like to thank NetGalley, the publisher St. Martin's Press, and the author Zoje Stage for the opportunity to do so.