Darcy and her fiancé Alex are looking for a fresh start when they move to the seaside town of Rock, preparing to get ready for their first child together. Joining an antenatal class seems like a good way to make new local friends going through the same experience and while Darcy struggles to connect with the women, she can't help let past insecurities and paranoia get in the way.

This was a very fun, gripping and well-paced thriller that sucked me right in from the start! It definitely helped (in some ways) that I'm currently 36 weeks pregnant and very familiar with a lot of the things Darcy is going through in this book, and could empathise a lot with the way she second guessed her own mind at times and hormones as yes sometimes pregnancy can make you think some crazy things. Darcy is an insecure person and it really highlights the fractures in her relationships with people from Alex to Carmen and Lucy.It can be hard to read at times especially when Darcy's insecurities makes her internally judge the other women in different ways.

As the story progresses and the pregnancies get bigger (and babies begin to arrive) we see shifts in relationship dynamics and personalities and tensions really rise up. I would have loved even more in some of the ways we see Darcy spiraling about things from the wedding dress to the attempted break-in - would love for subtle things like this to have happened from the start of the book versus the last part.

As for the last part which included the birth and subsequent events, I was literally gripped - I told myself I was going to read only to a certain part and then I'd go to sleep but I could not put the book down until I'd finished it. The scenes were so visceral and written so well. I do think afterwards, maybe because this part was so tense, the pace slowed down a bit ahead of the story wrapping up but I still enjoyed the ending. And the epilogue left me like !!