This novel brilliantly delves into the world of traditional wives and social media influencers while also getting bloody and gloriously gruesome.

Camille is dedicated to being a perfect tradwife. Everything about her life is meticulously dedicated to pleasing her husband and her days consist of cleaning, cooking, and having everything in her home Instagram picture ready. Deep down she has doubts but convinces herself that this is what she wants in life.

She's only missing a baby to complete the perfect picture. She's obsessed with a tradwife account with millions of followers and tries to emulate everything this woman does.

Finding a well in the back of her property, she wishes for a baby. Her husband hasn't touched her in a long time and she desperately wants a baby to fulfill her dream.

Well, she's going to get it but this baby, fathered by a creature she thinks is an angel, is very different, very viscous, and very hungry for unnatural things. But Camille will do anything for the baby and things are going to get bloody and absolutely horrific.

Told in first person from Camille, this novel dives into the tradwife life and the feeling of being trapped in a life far removed from the perfection social media portrays. It's grueling and demeaning at times. And watching the transition of Camille and her complete dedication to the baby with particular tastes and habits is chilling. Oh yes, there are bodies. There's also an overbearing husband who isn't physically abusive but demands everything be a certain way in the home. It's infuriating as Camille refuses to see certain things right in front of her. But that will change over the course of this book.

This is a fantastic disturbing look at gender roles, social media influencers, and motherhood. I highly recommend it.

I had to sit with this one for a while before I posted my review. This book was not at all what I thought it was, and parts of it grossed me out. The Trad Wife is definitely squarely in the horror category, no doubt about it. I was a little tuned off by the graphicness throughout, and generally that is not the case when I pick up novels with the horror descriptor. I was hoping it leaned more into the trad wife topic but it was firmly in demon territory. Unfortunately I can't go into more detail as I feel it will run into spoilers.