Synopsis For fans of Black Mirror and The Handmaid’s Tale, a mother desperately tries to keep her family together in a society where parenting standards are strictly monitored. “With fabulous world-building and a plot so tight you could bounce a quarter off of it, Dark Lullaby is a Handmaid’s Tale for the modern world, about the ways our human need for love can serve as both society’s salvation, and its undoing.”Sarah Langan, author of Good Neighbors The world is suffering an infertility crisis, the last natural birth was over twenty years ago and now the only way to conceive is through a painful fertility treatment. Any children born are strictly monitored, and if you are deemed an unfit parent then your child is extracted. After witnessing so many struggling to conceive – and then keep – their babies, Kit thought she didn’t want children. But then she meets Thomas and they have a baby girl, Mimi. Soon the small mistakes build up and suddenly Kit is faced with the possibility of losing her daughter, and she is forced to ask herself how far she will go to keep her family together. Review I received an eARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Well, shit. I didn’t like this book. Not because it was bad, but because it feels like it could be a possibility, and that freaks me out. We’re talking about a dystopian future where everything is monitored. The world is at 98% infertility, and if you weren’t helping to repopulate then you were basically considered a 2nd class citizen. Your life could only improve if you go through their fertility process known as “induction.” This process is described as something that, at best, can make you horrifically sick and, at worst, kill you. After enduring induction, and eventually having your child, your parenting is then monitored and citations are given. When you receive a certain amount of citations the child is “extracted” or taken away to be raised at “compounds.” Or are they? Enter Kit, our MC, who personally witnessed the horrific process of extraction and has sworn off kids. That is until she meets Thomas. I didn’t particularly like any of the characters, but I think that works for the book. If I were in that situation, I’d be the same; standoffish and wary of all. Dark Lullaby is an easy read that kept me turning page after page until the end.