It was fine

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This book had a great premise. I love the therapist angle of the book and the different perspectives that go back and forth. I think it was very beneficial for two authors so that the writing styles differed.

Nevertheless, we soldier on.

It wasn’t that I didn’t like the book. I didn’t understand the ending and I will not give that away but I saw everything coming and the measure of a thriller genre book is how much I can guess and if I can be surprised. I guessed everything and I wasn’t surprised. I think I was just disappointed because everything was going so well until part three.

My expectations for this book weren’t high because it was hyped or anything like that but because I thought that the premise held a lot of promise. I didn't really know what I was getting into when I first picked this up. It was at my library and I had seen it on bookstagram and I thought this was going to be fast-paced and scary. To compare this to Gone Girl is a mistake. It just is. I didn't connect with the characters and they felt really one-dimensional with tragic backstories. The way we are given information felt disjointed to the rest of the story.

There are certain aspects of the story that don't make any sense like a single girl being able to live alone on a freelance salary in New York City. What? Also, there is an assault that happens but we just kind of gloss over it because it isn't part of the main plot.

I get what they were trying to do here. The book asked some really difficult questions and tried to get us, the audience, to see the gray in certain situations. You can say that you would never do something but when you are in the thick of it, can you really stick to your word?

3 stars.