THIS IS SOOOO CRAZY! IF YOU LOVE YOUR BRAIN AND NOT TO GET EXPLODED SO EASILY BE CAUTIOUS AS YOU READ THIS BOOK! This is nassstyyy and I enjoy it wholeheartedly!

 I found my fictional soul mate: obsessive character reader, has no limits and never cares when somebody warns her to stop, a quiet young version Of Miss Marple and a little mature version of Nancy Drew, keeps digging and digging till she finds the truth!

 Yes! I’m talking about DEAR BETH (our absolutely nuts, extremely risk taker heroine) who passes through her ex-friend Flora’s house (they had stopped talking for 12 years) and she finds her friend leaves the house with her children but WAIT A MINUTE! Something is wrong, guys! Her ex-friend she hasn’t been touched with for 12 freaking years should have invented a kind of time machine because her children are exact the same age she had known them. They didn’t get any day older. 

What is going on, is this a genetic mutation kind of sick, ugly scenario? 

Or Beth popped up LCD and methamphetamine (I became spelling contest winner with this word!) cocktail before she drove her car and spied her ex-friend in her car while head she was head banging with blasting death metal song?

Has Flora’s children been captured by aliens, became friends with Mulder’s sister and replaced by cute, little aliens wearing human costumes?

Does Beth suffer from psychological disorder like seeing things they were never there and confusing gnome statues with real children?

Or did Beth forget her contact lenses at the house?

Is Flora playing mind games with her friend to avenge what she had done to her years ago? 

Or is everything a part of candid camera show?

Do you want to know the truth? Can you handle it? If your answer is already okay, READ THIS BOOK ASAP! It’s smart, it’s mind bending, it’s unputdownable! Even though I was at the dive bar and my friends were singing Karaoke and my traitor husband ate all my wings and nachos (if you stop by Ye Rustic Inn/ Los Feliz-LA, you may probably find me there singing “Feliz Navida”) you, I kept reading it , ignoring drunk crowd because it was soooooooo good!

One of the most intriguing, surprising and riveting thrillers of 2020!

Oh let’s give an applause to Zannah as best supporting character, Beth’s genius, cool, curious daughter.

My only question is where was Beth’s son? He has been mentioned to many times and we saw him at the beginning and till the end the book, he had no line. (At the end he didn’t talk, too and I though he was invisible character or there is something mysterious about him but thankfully he was real! What a relief!)

Giving my mysterious, nail biter, hand eater, dream killer, nerve bending four stars!

Special thanks to NetGalley and HarperCollins Publishers/William Morrow for sharing this heart throbbing book’s ARC COPY with me in exchange my honest review. I loved it so much!

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I love Sophie Hannah, her suspense is top notch. Perfect Little Children is no different in the mystery/thriller area. The plot though was very hard to grasp at times and I wasn't sure where it was headed. I did like the book it just took a while for me to get there so don't give in easy on this one.

I felt that this book started out with an interesting premise but as it went on, it began to wander into the land of the implausible.  Ending was satisfying in that the mystery was solved in a solid way.

The premise of this novel is fascinating and it starts off really strong. However, it devolves a third of the way into it, and I found myself longing to skip ahead to find out what happens without having to slog through the middle of the book. The end is solid, but I didn’t really connect with the writing style or the characters.

I thought this was going in a different direction and in the end the actual story behind the mystery was a little underwhelming.  But it did keep me guessing and I was engaged with the story.

Sophie Hannah hooks the reader right away with a crazy, implausible scenario.  I was glad the mystery was solved with a non-supernatural (albeit somewhat convoluted and implausible) solution.

Thanks to NetGalley for providing a digital ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Beth, like most of us, has a broken friendship in her past, and she's been lacking closure on the relationship for 12 years. What happened between her and Flora? Beth happens to be in the neighborhood of Flora's new address to take her teenage son to a football game. When she drives by the house, she sees someone who looks and sounds like Flora, but the children, who should be teens by now, are still 5 and 3, and Beth is certain she hears Beth call them by Flora's older kids' names - has time reversed? What is going on? Further research online seems to reveal that Flora's family has moved to America, so why does Beth keep seeing Flora in England? And where is her third child?

Sophie Hannah continues to weave fascinating, if not particularly likely, scenarios in this fun thriller. Will you question the motivations of practically everyone in this book? Probably. But it's a page-turner, and a quick read. Hannah's fans will not be (too) disappointed, unless they, like myself, are really hoping to see some Spilsbury Police characters crop up (they don't).

This book investigates what people are willing to do for money, power, and love, and what people will do to maintain a "perfect" life.

I was looking forward to this book after reading the plot premise, but I found it unrealistic, disappointing and too contrived.

Thank you to Net Galley for an advance copy in exchange for an honest review.

Perfect Little Children is the story of Beth and her friendship with Flora. Beth hasn't spoken to Flora in 12 years and is surprised to see her with her two children, who appear to be the exact same age as when she last saw them.
 I was looking forward to reading this book, as I love a good psychological suspense novel. Unfortunately for me this book just did not deliver. I made myself finish the book, but I found the ending underwhelming. The whole story just felt a little disjointed and confusing.

i have read most of Sophie Hannah's books and have to say that this is the best one yet.  The book was well written and a quick read for me.  It kept me guessing right up until the very end. Thank you for the advanced copy.  I will be recommending this one for sure!

The first few pages of this book really reeled me in. A mystery involving precious little children , best friends who've had a falling out , all rolled into a novel written by a good writer? I was all in. Now, I don't know if it was just me , but I was so anxious to figure out what was going on but it seems like the length of the book and the complicated plot made me lose steam about 2/3 through.

 I do enjoy the author's writing style , but the dialogue felt stilted and sometimes it was just too much of it. For me, that detracted from the story overall . Maybe I was just too impatient to find out what happened , but I do look forward to reading more of this authors books in the future .

Beth can’t help but drive by her old friend, Flora’s house after dropping her son off for a sporting event. Beth hasn’t seen her old friend for over a decade, but as she watches from outside Flora’s house, she’s shocked to see Flora call to her two children. Twelve tears ago they were 3 and five, but today they don’t look a day older. How is this possible? Hannah specializes in the strange and twisted and this story is no different. Readers may guess what’s happening, but that doesn’t make it any less creepy