I really enjoyed this book!
I thought that I had figured what was happening, but then just as I thought I was on the right track, there was a twist I didn’t see coming.
This story follows the lives of neighbours and I enjoyed the multiple POV.
It was a great story line and was unique.
I haven’t read anything from this author before, but I really enjoyed this story.
Thankyou to the author and NetGalley for approving my request for a ARC. I am so grateful for being allowed to read this book and be able to review it.
I recommend this book for anyone looking for a new thriller.
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A domestic thriller. This book started great, and then it flashed back and was a bit slow. However, after a few chapters, I was hooked into the story. There were a few twists I didn't see coming, but I found some predictable. This was a fun read. I recommend this book to thriller lovers.

First, I want to thank Nicole Trope, Bookouture and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I can bring you this review.

O.M.G!! DANG!!! The Stay At Home Mother is Nicole Trope’s most twistiest book I have read to date!! WOW!!! I am dying to know where she came up with the inspiration for this read but damn it is brilliant! If I could rate it more than 5 stars I would. One thing is for sure people will be talking about this book!! So much so that it will be a bestseller in no time!! You must go out and grab this book and bump it up to the beginning of your TBR list. Trust me you will thank me later!

This is a Mother's worst nightmare come true and thensome!! This is a crazy story in so many ways!! It had so many facets you could want in a psychological thriller and I just loved all of them. You had your shady characters (oh how they were shady), so many wicked twists and turns, oh the secrets and the lies, not to mention the jaw dropping revelations! Nicole outdid herself with this one!

OHHH Nicole started out her prologue with a bombshell that made my jaw drop!! Needless to say she hooked me with her insanely fast paced addicting story that made my head spin!!

This is one book that you don't want to blink because if you do you might miss a curveball that Nicole throws at you.

I can see this being a freaky good Netflix series that I would totally binge watch!

Nicole Thorpe is fast becoming one of my must read authors!

I loved this book.

I just could not put it down.

It had me hooked from the very first chapter.

If you like a good fast paced, quicky and twisty read than look no further this is the book for you.

Definately recommend for any thriller lovers out there!

Looking forward to seeing ehat she comes up with next. Ms. Thorpe is most definately one to keep an eye out for.

Thanks so mich to Netgalley for the chance to read an advamced reading copy of this latest book in exchange for an honest review.

4 Stars.

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🔹 My take: 3.5/5

🔸 Andrea is pregnant with her second child that is due very soon. In unfortunate circumstances, she has to shift to a new locality in her third trimester. Her husband; Terry, is always out as he has pressurised sales job and Andy is left alone to handle her son Jack, settle in new neighbourhood and unpack all their stuff. Enters Gabrielle aka Gabby who stays opposite Andy’s house. She is a smart lady and runs social media blogs sharing advise on children upbringing. She has a teenage son Flynn who is a handful. Gabby is very friendly & supportive to Andy, cheers her up while she is down and baby sits Jack when Andy is tired to keep up with everything. Gabby is everything that Andy wants to be - confident, smart, poised and calm. Andy suddenly gets contractions and she rushes to hospital while asking Gabby to babysit Jack. When she returns home, she is aghast to see that Gabby’s house is ransacked and both Gabby & Jack are out of sight. One after the other truth tumbles out when Andy and Terry go out in search for Jack who is nowhere to be traced.

💖 Nicole Trope has done it again by churning out another psychological thriller. The writing is enjoyable and the thriller scenes at the end are bit unnerving as to how things unravel. I loved reading epilogues of Andrea and Gabby and author’s letter at the end was heartfelt.

💔 I found the plot a bit predictable here which was a dampener. The twists are not many and the few ones which are there came only at the end. So I was not totally invested all through.

💫 I would say if you have loved Nicole Trope’s books earlier, go for this. If you haven’t read her before, try her book ‘The Foster Family’ first since I enjoyed that more than this one.

Thanks to @bookouture and @netgalley for sharing eARC in exchange for honest review.

The Stay-at-Home Mother
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This is a quick, easy read with unreliable narrators and lots of twists and turns. Gemma and Andrea are new neighbors. Andrea is a struggling mom of a young child, and Gemma is the lonely mom of a very independent teen. They are definitely well-matched, but each seems to be hiding something.
Although I appreciated the twists and turns, I would have preferred a bit more character development. However, that seems at odds with this genre, so that’s probably an unfair criticism.
Thank you, Bookouture and NetGalley for my complimentary copy.

This book was okay. I definitely liked the ending reveal of Gabby and Richard s relationship. I think the problem for me was that based on the prologue, I expected the book to go in a much different direction. Overall though it was a fast paced read which was just what I was in the mood for!

Thank you was this advanced reader copy.

My favourite Nicole Trope book so far!
The synopsis had me hooked, and while it took a while to become actually relevant to the story, I think it was a wonderfully intriguing start.
I couldn't put this down, Trope kept it interesting and I raced through it. The ending made me grin like a Cheshire cat!
I'm becoming a huge Trope fan, she writes fascinating characters with a wonderfully gripping plot around them.
Fantastic.

- Dual POV
- Quick read, short - 200ish pages
- Set in Australia

The Stay At Mother focuses on the lives of Andrea and Gabby. Andrea is a mother to 3yo Jack and is heavily pregnant. Andrea and her husband Terry have moved into a new home, where Gabby lives across the street. Gabby is a SAHM to 16yo Flynn who is mostly alone as her husband travels for work. The women strike up a friendship and their story spirals from there.

This one starts off a little slow but picks up to a fast pace in the second half. An unreliable narrator gives the story some interesting twists though a couple of plot points were fairly predictable. It is still a page turner, perfect for beach or poolside reading

TW - gambling, child abduction, kleptomania, mental health

This is my first book by this author. Although a little slow start, I thought the twists were well done and unexpected. I'll be looking forward to more books by Nicole Trope.

Nicole Trope has become one of my favorite psychological thriller authors and this must be the seventh book I have read from this author.

The story starts with a picture of a young boy named Jack posted on the missing children's website by his mother named Andrea and a woman is demanding to know how Andrea got a picture of her own son. Andrea Gately is pregnant with her second child and is a loving mother to Jack although she is dealing with her gambling husband, Terry. She meets a woman named Gabby, who lives next door to Andrea's house. Gabby's husband had recently divorced from her and is now living in US and she has a son named Flynn. The two women become friends until Andrea gives Gabby to babysit Jack. Then Jack goes missing with Gabby.

I feel this was a fast paced thriller with some twists and turns along the way. The story is told in Andrea's and Gabby's POV and we do have an unreliable narrator The ending was what actually blew me away and there's a slight cliff hanger, as to what is going to happen next. Overall, if you are looking for an unputdownable thriller, then this book is worth the hype--worth five stars!

Many thanks to Netgalley and Bookouture for the ARC. The review is based on my honest opinion only.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read this book for an honest review.
Stay at Home mother by Nicole Trope.

Andrea who is heavily pregnant with her second child moves into the worst house in the best street in a Sydney suburb. Andrea also has a 3 year old son called Jack. Andrea and her husband appear to have fallen on bad times. Gabby the neighbor who lives across the street is closely watching them move in . Gabby has a teenage son and her husband is in the US for work. This story is told by both Andrea and Gabby each about their own lives and each from their own perspective as they befriend each other.However all is not what it seems. Both women’s lives begin to unravel and the lies begin to dominate each woman’s life with drastic results .

Read this well written story and enjoy the twists and turns throughout, you will not be disappointed.
4 stars.

Loved the writing style of Nicole trope. This is my first book by this author . Excellent storytelling. Gripping from the very beginning!! I hope to enjoy more books from Nicole trope .

If you love Lifetime thriller movies, then this is the movie for you.

This story is told from dual perspectives of two stay at home mothers. Andrea is pregnant with her second child and dealing with a temperamental toddler. In addition, she has a gambling husband who has put them in debt and in danger. Everything changes when she meets friendly neighbor Gabby. Gabby is a stay at home mother to a teenage boy and is the typical influence stay at home mom. When these two develop a friendship, Andrea realizes that not everything as it seems.

Unfortunately, I was not the biggest fan of this book. As mentioned previously, it read like a lifetime movie. The plot was very predictable and the characters weren't very dimensional. I did appreciate the authors ability to craft the novel and she made sure not to draw it out. It was very well paced. Overall I would give this book a 3 out of 5 star rating.

Thank you Netgalley for a free ARC of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

Oh my good gosh.... What a fabulous novel The Stay at Home Mother is!!! Having read previous novels by Nicole Trope, I was expecting a great book but this one really blew me away! It felt so real and I believed everything Gabby said exactly what Nicole wanted. The twist is fantastic.

Woweeeee did this ending ever blow my mind!!!
Great great fantastic build up to what happened.
This book couldn't have been any better. I loved everything about it. The storyline, the characters the craziness, chapter length and how it all just flowed to make you not want to put it down.
Bravo!!

Thanks to the author, the publisher and NetGalley for an early release of this book.

This was up and down for me. I liked it, for the majority, but then it just kind of seemed to end? I may have been relying too much on my Kindle's "1 hour 20 minutes left in the book" feature, and was blown away to get to "52 minutes left" and an epilogue.. but I thought there would be more. It was getting a bit cyclical at the end, and I was starting to feel a bit bored, so I'm not mad at when it ended. The epilogues were a bit over the top for me, though. I think it would've been better to try to fit them into the narrative, since - as they're written - it felt more like "okay, let's end the book there and just wrap everything up in an epilogue." I was ready to give a 4 star until the end, so it was a bit of a blow for me.

The Stay-at-Home Mother by Nicole Trope is a highly recommended psychological thriller set in Sydney, Australia.

Terry, Andrea and three-year-old Jack move into a run down house in an expensive neighborhood. Andrea is very pregnant and not pleased with this turn of events. They lost their home due to Terry's gambling problems, so moving into this house, a fixer-upper, is thanks to Andrea's father who knew the person buying it was willing to rent it for awhile to them. Andrea is less than thrilled, but she feels she is stuck in her current situation and that Terry is going to try.

At the beginning Andrea is a bit distrustful when the neighbor across the street, Gabby, reaches out to her in friendship, but soon she is becoming a part of Andrea's life. Gabby is busy with her teenage son, Flynn, but is always available for tea and snacks with Andrea and Jack. She even pulled out some old dinosaurs Flynn used to play with for Jack. Gabby has offered to babysit anytime Andrea needs help. What young, exhausted, pregnant mother doesn't need this kind of support, especially when Andrea is suspicious that Terry is gambling again.

The writing is very good and the plot is fast moving, entertaining, twisty, and surprising. Some of the twists are easily guessed and others are truly surprising. There are several strange, odd occurrences going on and so suspicions and tension will rise while reading. You will be on alert for something to happen, and things do happen, which only results in raising the tension some more. The opening of the narrative will definitely grab your attention and keep you glued to the pages for answers.

The narrative alternates between the point-of-view of Andrea and Gabby. Both women are complex, interesting characters, and both of them are hiding secrets from each other. Andrea is keeping her husband's addiction and how it has ravaged their family's security, financially and physically a secret. Gabby's addiction to social media where she posts about her son was an interesting character trait, but the more engaging trait is that it becomes clear quite that she is a very unreliable and unbalanced narrator.

You may have to suspend disbelief a time or two, but The Stay-at-Home Mother is a great psychological thriller that most readers will enjoy start to finish.

Disclosure: My review copy was courtesy of Bookouture via NetGalley.




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Thank you for giving me this copy of The Stay-at-Home Mother!

At first I thought it was another of those stay-at-home mothers usual stories where the two mothers get involved in some way with each other. But, no! Gabby had all her Facebook posts (couldn't wait to see how many likes she got every day) with her son, Flynn. Andrea wonders what kind of a son Flynn is and also wonders to herself why she has never actually seen Flynn.

Why does Gabby seem so set on babysitting HER son? She hardly knows him. Why is she so involved with her brother in the U.S.? What has Andrea's husband, Terry, gotten into again with the mysterious man in the beat up red car constantly stalking her in her neighborhood? Or is he here for Gabby?

There are lots of twists and turns in this book that will keep you guessing until the end. Then, just when you think you have it all figured out, you probably don't!

I have read several books by Nicole Trope and look forward to reading more!

Once again Nicole Trope knocks it out of the park with an exciting thriller about missing children and unreliable narrators.

The story revolves around a heavily pregnant, exhausted young mum, Andrea who has just moved into a new neighbourhood. She is quickly befriended by her neighbour Gemma who has her own blog/FB page that is full of pearls of wisdom for mothers about raising their kids. The two hit it off instantly but it becomes quickly obvious that each of them are keeping secrets - big ones.

Nicole Trope has been a personal favourite, as IMO, she is simply the queen of plot twists which is yet again proved with this book. And just when you think you are done with all the twists, BAM!!.. there comes yet another jaw-dropping one in the epilogue..

Overall, too good. Thanks to Bookouture and Netgalley for providing a digital copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.