Such A Good Mom by Julia Spiro

 

My thoughts

Seems I am alone with my thoughts about this book. I did not enjoy it. It was so repetitive aggravating for me. I'm sorry but to me it was just ok. Maybe awful. I honestly hate to write this kind of review. To me this was just not that good.

Brynn is a new mother. She is never sleeping and her husband is not understanding. Their baby cries all the time and Brynn wishes she had never had him. Well yes some mothers go through this. It is good to adress. But all Brynn does is whine about her baby. About lack of sleep. About breast feeding. About everything.

When Brynn's husband is arrested for the murder of a waitress at the club they belong too on Martha's Vineyard she begins to wonder if he had an affair. If he killed her. Good grief would you blame him if he did? Well yes I would but still. Brynn starts to investigate. Lack of sleep and a screaming baby would stop a normal person. But not this one. She wants answers. She tells her friends how much she believes in her husband. Seems to me she should have recognized her own husband in a video. NO MATTER WHAT... 

I didn't like anyone in this book. Well maybe Ginny. But the rest were so perfect. Until they weren't. I give Ross, Brynn's husband a pass because he seemed to truly be a nice guy. He was working hard for them to have a good life. He was also investigating someone for being crooked. I won't say who. 

Everything does come out in the end. Not that I didn't figure it out. Good grief I was hoping it would be more. Maybe a long lost relative or something. All well what can I say. I did not enjoy any part of this book. To much about lack of sleep, breast feeding, and don't get me started on that rectal thermometer thing. lol It wasn't like Brynn did not have help. Oh and all throughout this story you hear how awful her mother was and is but then she shows up and it's like Brynn's best friend forever showed up. Yes this book was aggravating. It had me rolling my eyes so much. But the author worked hard on it I'm sure and I have to give her credit for that...

Thank you #NetGalley, #StMartinsPress, #MacMillanAudio, for this ARC. 

About

Bestselling author Julia Spiro's Such a Good Mom is a brilliant standalone mystery that's the perfect beach read. In the heat of summer, a murder on Martha's Vineyard rocks one new mom to the core, leaving her to search for answers.

With a healthy newborn baby, a devoted husband, a successful career, and a busy life on Martha’s Vineyard, Brynn Nelson should be the happiest she’s ever been. But Brynn is struggling. Her husband, Ross, grows more distant by the day, and the challenges and exhaustion of postpartum make Brynn feel like she’s slowly losing pieces of herself to motherhood. Pieces that she might never get back.

But it’s summer on the Vineyard, a beacon for wealthy visitors, and a place so beautiful that it seems immune to tragedy and crime. Except for locals, like Brynn, who know all too well that tragedy can strike at any point. And this time, it hits close to home when a friend of the family is found washed ashore. Dead. And Brynn’s already hectic life is turned upside down when Ross is arrested for the crime.

Left reeling with more questions than answers, Brynn’s only path forward is to find out who really killed Cecelia Buckley, even if it means it was her husband. She’s not sure who she’s able to trust anymore. And with dizzying, endless cycle of sleepless nights, diapers, and bottles, Brynn’s not even sure she can trust herself. She’s not sure of anything anymore, but she won’t stop until she finds the truth.

Bestselling author Julia Spiro is known for writing characters readers instantly connect to. With Such a Good Mom, Spiro brings the real and layered Martha’s Vineyard to life through the eyes of a new mom trying to get her family out of the eye of the storm that is a murder investigation.