It was good, a quick thriller. Near the end of the book the main character started to really annoy me, also called the bad guy about half way through.

I was hooked as soon as I started reading Woman on the Edge. Actually I was hooked as soon as I read the blurb but contrary to many thrillers, the book itself wasn't disappointing compared to its blurb.

It's not particularly original, it's the usual 2 points of views (and 2 timelines) narration but it's really well done.

You need a good dose of suspension of disbelief with this one but I don't mind that, at least things were happening all the time, and the tension was there until nearly the end (I say "nearly" because I think the guilty party is revealed a tiny bit too soon).

I had guessed who was responsible for everything very, very early in the book (IMO, that person stands out like a sore thumb) but again, I didn't mind. I had no idea when it came to the motive and I would never have guessed it (even if, again, it's not unheard of or anything like that).

Anyway, a good little thriller that won't revolutionize the genre but will keep you entertained while you read it.

All of 2019, I only read 20 thrillers... It's not even 10 days into 2020 and I've already blown through three of them. Is this a premonition that 2020 will be the year of the thriller for me? Only time (and the library) will tell.

Woman on the Edge is following in the trend of domestic thrillers that have been on the market lately. Could this be a sign that the genre is trying to move away from books marketed more towards a male audience and towards more female readers, I don't know. But I do find that they all have one trait that is really starting to get on my nerves - the idea that in order to have a 'surprise' ending, ALL clues and hints of who actually is the bad guy is either completely left out or left so vague/hidden that you KNOW who did it simply because they are a major player in the story, and they are the only person in it that has no suspicion or shadow thrown on them. WHY is this a thing? It doesn't make for a satisfying ending, at least not for me. In fact, it makes me feel a little cheated, because I personally didn't need to work to figure out the mystery. It was literally handed to me on a silver platter, where the 'fooled you' was completely non-existent.

This book took it one step further than most, however, because of a few things. I'm going to spoiler tag them because they don't appear until the very end of the book, but I will say that by then I had pretty much figured things out because of the omissions as I have mentioned above.

It's not until the last couple chapters that we are told the little things that SHOULD have been peppered throughout the book to at least try to point a finger at the culprit. The subtle differences in screen names for the message board that all the women used for one. On this point, I cry foul in a major way, simply because said message board was NOT EVEN MENTIONED by any character, either in the present day narrative, or the scenes detailing Nicole's past. Why couldn't this have been a major part of the story? It was no secret that Morgan wanted a child. Why not play up Nicole's reasons for being on the site, OTHER than her plan to find a new home for her child and trying to find a suitable candidate?

Why have all the hints at who her husband was having an affair with be pointed at the assistant, instead of Tessa?

Why have Tessa lie to us time and again about not wanting children, and then the big reveal is, surprise, I really do? Why not have her undergoing IVF and it failing time and again? Why not have her deplete her life savings trying to do this? Why not have her be rejected time and again to adopt for whatever reason? There are SO many ways you can show that she covets Nicole and her child instead of lying to the reader about her motivations, and we can only take it at face value because she has done nothing either to prove her own words wrong. Hell, her reasoning could have been as simple as I've taken your husband, and now I want everything he has. (I guess an issue with this is the husband walked away and never looked back, never fought for custody, never turned Nicole in for being an unfit mother, etc).

As for characters go, I felt the way Nicole was portrayed was a little high handed and a lot over the top. Yes, post-partum is awful, but I just felt it was done to an extreme that was unnecessary. Lots of things could have taken the place of the complete paranoia. Especially when all her close friends KNEW she was suffering, and NONE of them did anything about it. If an intervention is ever necessary, this instance is a prime example of it. Heck, THIS could have been a great opportunity for the culprit to show their motivations.

All in all, it wasn't a bad book. I just think a lot of the motivations were too muddy for it to be pushed out of the meh zone and to be a good or even great one.

This book takes the term “fast-paced” and ratchets it up a notch or two! The action starts on the first page, and never lets up. The multiple POV strategy carries you through the current police investigation and back to the weeks leading up to the moment in which Nicole thrusts her baby into a stranger’s arms, and then steps away. While I had figured out the culprit about halfway through, it did not affect my enjoyment of this book.

TW for suicide, postpartum depression and psychosis, and anxiety.

Many others really liked this one, but it didn't work for me. I figured out the mystery fairly early on, I didn't connect with or like any of the other characters, and I had issues with the plot. That being said, it was a fast read and I did want to finish it to see how it would end.

I found this book to be very cliche, predictable, and kind of irritating to read. The characters did everything that you would NOT do. I saw the “twist” coming from a mile away. I finished it but only to see if I was right about the ending. This book was definitely not for me.

I could not put this book down! I kept thinking about it when I wasn’t reading it. I loved the back and forth perspective and different moments in time. I truly didn’t see the twist coming until it snuck up on me! Definitely one of the best thrillers I’ve read in awhile!

Wow! What an incredible thriller!

Woman on the Edge was such a great book. I could not put it down!

@sbaileybooks has written such a clever story. The execution and details were superb. I picked up this book after seeing how much @elliotreads enjoyed the book and when I posted I was reading it everyone told me how much I would love it and they were right.

I felt so many emotions as I read Nicole and Morgan’s points of view. I felt all the feelings of sadness, anger, frustration, and fear. The truth was shocking and really makes you think that you never truly know who to trust. This is definitely a book I will be recommending to others.