I started this really interested but that dwindled quickly. Okay, a first person confession of fratricide in a therapy session - got it. Then we've got the setting of a prep school where it sounds like a hazing ritual is underway - I'm with you. Then the crime scene description, probably of the same scene (not super clear from the chapter heading) - I'm still hanging in, although the anomalies are starting to get to me, including a detective who translates a Latin motto off the top of his head, but thinks 3:33 AM is "bewitching" (badly used unless that's sarcasm)? Then I'm reading about a podcast a year later, long after this is all over, and I'm only on page 13 - I'm barely clinging by my fingertips. My abandonment issues are starting to trigger ... is the author going to bail on me here too? Should I get invested in THESE characters? I really don't want to hear about this from two competing investigative personalities a year later, I want to go back to the crime scene. By the time I got to page 26 - that's Chapter 4 in Part I if you're keeping score - I have no idea who the random "he" is I'm following now. Is it one of the journalists in the first three chapters? Is it the psycho from the first page or the person who first told me about the crime scene? Are those two people the same person? Then Chapter 5 and I'm back to a journalist - wait, why did Chapter 4 exist? Sorry, I'm not making it to Chapter 6, or Part II, or Session 2, or whatever may or may not be yet to come. This book is way too much work for too little reward. And I'm sorry because the premise was appealing to me, and I'd have enjoyed this if it were just less COMPLICATED. UPDATE: as I read the other first impressions I'm wondering what the heck they were all reading - I couldn't even find someone named Rory in this book even when searching all the way to the end!