Book Details
Date Read: July 1, 2023
Publication Date: March 2024
Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Format: Digital Book
Page Count: 352
Listening Time: 12 hours 45 minutes
Print Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Audio Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Bye, Baby Book Review
Bye, Baby by Carola Lovering was a bingeable thriller I could not put down. In it we meet Cassie and Billie, two childhood friends who have drifted apart in adulthood. Billie longs to reconnect, but Cassie is in her own world of Instagram influencing, motherhood, and socialite life. One night something tragic happens with Cassie and it catapults these friends back together. I suggest knowing little more on plot going in.
Let’s talk mood instead, to help you know if the book is for you. It’s fast-paced and alternating POV, along with alternating timelines. There isn’t a crime to solve as a reader, you know what’s happening because of the POVs, so the tension comes from the secrets being kept and if / when they will come to light. At the center of the story is a toxic friendship and a few snobby, elitist characters. The story has closure in the end and is a quick, entertaining read.
This book doesn’t come out until March 5, 2024, though I also enjoyed the author’s prior book, Can’t Look Away, and would recommend trying that in the meantime. Be sure to double check Libby and your local library to see if you can place a hold for Bye, Baby now and be the first to check it out.
Thank you to St. Martin’s Press and NetGalley for the complimentary, early copy – it was an exciting read!
Content warnings: child abuse, sexual assault (with a few descriptive scenes), kidnapping, toxic friendship
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