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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage

 width=If you are in need of a blood chilling thriller to make your heart pound, Baby Teeth (St. Martin’s Press) is for you!  It is clear that author Zoje Stage mastered everything dark and suspenseful when she created Hanna, a seven year old, and the only child of Suzette and Alex.  Suzette had a difficult childhood, poor mothering and a continual battle with Crones Disease. When she meets Alex in a professional environment, he saves her from loneliness and despair by respecting her design work and falling in love.  Alex, an architect, is a cheery Swedish man who desperately loves his wife, Suzette, and showers his very bright but mute daughter Hanna with love and attention.  Both parents want to be the best they can be; they spend lots of time with Hanna, they have patience for their daughter, but she doesn’t speak a word and seems to only love her Daddy.

After being kicked out of several preschools for bad behavior that Alex cannot recognize or accept, Suzette is homeschooling her daughter but seeing red flags in her behavior towards her.  She witnesses outrageous outbursts, but due to her lack of confidence in her parenting and wife skills, she keeps some of what she experiences with her daughter to herself so as not to upset her disbelieving husband.

Hanna has an alter ego that seems to want to kill Mommy so she can have Daddy all to herself and she is working on a plan.  When mother and daughter are alone she terrorizes and scares her but when Daddy gets home she is her cuddly sweet self.

Life becomes dangerous for Suzette when warnings escalate from Hanna. Her artwork depicts a dead Mommy, she speaks obscene and threatening messages to her mother when nobody else is around, and finally sophisticated scheming that leads to illness and physical violence!  Suzette and Alex’s parenting skills are in question along with safety in their home when they finally reach out for help and share what is going on with outsiders as the danger and threats escalate…but will it be too late?

This is a creepy story…but good creepy!  If you want to feel positive about your own family, OR you don’t want to have children, this book will support you in a big way!  Baby Teeth (now available for purchase) is a quick summer read that will keep you engaged and freaked out.

 

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Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Genre: Horror, Thrillers
Author: Zoje Stage
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781250252420
Jennifer Blankfein

Jennifer Gans Blankfein is a freelance marketing consultant and book reviewer. She graduated from Lehigh University with a Psychology degree and has a background in advertising. Her experience includes event coordination and fundraising along with editing a weekly, local, small business newsletter. Jennifer loves to talk about books, is an avid reader, and currently writes a book blog, Book Nation by Jen. She lives in Connecticut with her husband, two sons and black lab.

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