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“Bye, Baby” by Carola Lovering
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“Bye, Baby” by Carola Lovering
Review by Amy Atzert, collection development librarian
Cassie and Billie were the best of friends. The two of them always supported each other. They would not have made it through their childhood trauma without that friendship. Billie never imagined with what they experienced together their bond would be broken.
But that is exactly what happens once Cassie meets and marries Grant. Billie is replaced with other friends who are more acceptable in society. Once Grant and Cassie have a baby girl Ella things only get worse. Billie doesn’t even get an invitation to Cassie’s big birthday bash in their fancy penthouse apartment. Through a strange happenstance, Billie finds herself in the apartment under Cassie’s on the same night of the birthday party she was not invited to. Even though the party is raging upstairs Billie hears the unmistakable screams of baby Ella on the balcony above. So much screaming and no one is helping Ella. When the screaming continues Billie takes it upon herself to climb the fire escape to help the baby. The next thing she does is both desperate and unthinkable.
A faced-paced and twisty thriller laced with the trials and tribulations of female friendship. The dialogue goes back and forth throughout the story from both Cassie and Billie’s perspectives. Slowly the author begins to reveal the specifics of each of their childhood traumas. I found myself saying “No, don’t do that!” over and over with this one!