Review: The Surrogate Mother by Frieda McFadden

 

Publisher: Poisoned Pen Press

Publication Date: October 2025 (originally October 2018)

Source: Borrowed from library

Blurb: 

Abby wants a baby more than anything.

But after years of failed infertility treatments and adoptions that have fallen through, it seems like motherhood is not in her future. That is, until her personal assistant Monica, makes a generous offer that will make all of Abby's dreams come true.
Or all of her nightmares.
Because it turns out Monica isn't who she says she is. The woman now carrying Abby's child has dark, twisted secrets.
And she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.

With the craziness building as my first year in my masters comes to a close, I have not been reading as much as I would like to at all. I decided I needed to take a break from the assignments and screens, and read a book that would be fast paced and take my mind off of the impending deadlines. 

The Surrogate Mother was the perfect choice for this as I was pretty much invested into the story from the first 30 pages. A short - ish thriller at only 290-something pages, I was able to fly through this while reading in bed in the morning or night before beginning / finishing my assignment writing for the day.