I'll admit that at it took me at least 50-100 pages before I was really invested in this story, but once I was in it, I was invested. It's pretty interesting to have a character who isn't speaking a word in their own defense- who isn't speaking a word at all- and I was very curious about Alicia Berenson. Is she a traumatized victim, or a stone-cold killer? From snippets of the diary she kept leading up to the death of her husband, readers get to know Alicia a little bit, but even her private musings can leave readers wondering who she is, as she seems a bit sad, a bit lonely- but murderous? Her psychologist, who tells the story, is a bit of a strange character as well, seeming pretty obsessed with his famous patient and pursuing endless methods to get her to speak. I'll even admit that I was taken by the ending, but in retrospect it probably should not have felt like such a surprise.