I didn’t realize this is going to be on the psychological thriller side. And I would have said I would not have liked it, but I did like it..? Ok so I did guess early on about Mat (if you’ve read one thriller you’ve read them all), but even so he was so creepy that I couldn’t stop reading. Also this book was pretty funny in that it was looking at white cis hetero male entitlement from other perspectives (gay, POC) and just how glaringly privileged and honestly delusional . Like I’m still thinking about how Ava was essentially building Mat’s casket for most of the book! Granted this book took it to the extremes (maybe not) but if you think about some of the men you see in the new for example, it highlights how self centered and myopic the average white male is. Perhaps I felt this more acutely because I read this in the midst of all these mass shootings and (white) police murdering innocent black men. Overall this book was predictable, a lot of the story lines were familiar, but I like Ava, her friendship with Jaimie, the lgtb representation and of course Brutus.