Title: Delicate Condition

Author: Danielle Valentine

Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLHY69QD

Summary

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK!

As seen in People, Vanity Fair, Entertainment Weekly, USA Today, Shondaland, Goodreads, and more!

The Push meets The Silent Patient in a gripping thriller that follows a woman convinced a sinister figure is going to great lengths to make sure her pregnancy never happens—while the men in her life refuse to believe a word she says.

Anna Alcott is desperate to have a family. But as she tries to balance her increasingly public life as an indie actress with a grueling IVF journey, she starts to suspect that someone is going to great lengths to make sure that never happens. Crucial medicines are lost. Appointments get swapped without her knowledge. Cryptic warnings have her jumping at shadows. And despite everything she’s gone through to make this pregnancy a reality, not even her husband is willing to believe that someone is playing twisted games with her.

Then her doctor tells her she’s had a miscarriage—except Anna’s convinced she’s still pregnant despite everything the grave-faced men around her claim. She can feel the baby moving inside her, can see the strain it’s taking on her weakening body. Vague warnings become direct threats as someone stalks her through the bleak ghost town of the snowy Hamptons. As her symptoms and sense of danger grow ever more horrifying, Anna can’t help but wonder what exactly she’s carrying inside of her…and why no one will listen when she says something is horribly, painfully wrong.

My Review

5/5 Stars

After multiple rounds of failed IVF, actress Anna Alcott is desperate to have a baby, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make that dream a reality. Even if that means dealing with supernatural forces outside of her control.

Atmospheric and worldly, I loved the way this book seemingly blended the horrors of the real world with the occult.

My favorite part of this book was the overall creepiness. I didn’t know who to pin as a good person and who wasn’t. The more the narrator was affected by delusions and paranoia, the harder it became to trust her either. I felt as if that was an interesting twist to the plot.

The moment at the end of the book when it all came together was perfect, and with the ending in mind, I want to give this one a reread to look for foreshadowing that I feel I missed on my first go around.

Speaking of the ending, I loved the way the epilogue made the story come full circle. All in all, this was a wild book from start to finish. Easy to understand why producers of American Horror Story picked it as a basis for their upcoming season.