Too much of a good thing isn't better, it's just too much.
The opening hooked me with an intense, well written scene. I didn't want to put the book down.
We have two narrating characters, Eva and Kat. Both are interesting, complex, and just mysterious enough to keep me wanting to learn more.
But then...
This story reaches in too many directions, adding a little of everything along the way. We have secrets, domestic abuse, rape, memory loss, manipulation, revenge, and obsessions galore. And lies! No one tells the truth here, ever.
Plot twists abound. The jaw-dropping kind that normally occur once in a book, but here they're littered throughout. And, yet, none of them surprised me because so much was happening that there was nowhere left to go.
And then we get to the major climax, with a round of truth and confessions from all the important players, which is obviously for the reader's benefit. The last thing I'd want to do if I'm bleeding and facing death is have a group share, but, hey, everyone's different.
Sadly, the implausibility and reliance on coincidences, along with the smorgasbord of content, detracted from what is, at its heart, an emotionally provocative story.
The opening hooked me with an intense, well written scene. I didn't want to put the book down.
We have two narrating characters, Eva and Kat. Both are interesting, complex, and just mysterious enough to keep me wanting to learn more.
But then...
This story reaches in too many directions, adding a little of everything along the way. We have secrets, domestic abuse, rape, memory loss, manipulation, revenge, and obsessions galore. And lies! No one tells the truth here, ever.
Plot twists abound. The jaw-dropping kind that normally occur once in a book, but here they're littered throughout. And, yet, none of them surprised me because so much was happening that there was nowhere left to go.
And then we get to the major climax, with a round of truth and confessions from all the important players, which is obviously for the reader's benefit. The last thing I'd want to do if I'm bleeding and facing death is have a group share, but, hey, everyone's different.
Sadly, the implausibility and reliance on coincidences, along with the smorgasbord of content, detracted from what is, at its heart, an emotionally provocative story.