This was over-hyped and that killed it for me

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First off, this book was so hyped up to have all the best twists and craziness, but then you lead off with this description on the actual book itself:
"When you read this book, you will make many assumptions. You will assume you are reading about a jealous ex-wife. You will assume she is obsessed with her replacement – a beautiful, younger woman who is about to marry the man they both love. You will assume you know the anatomy of this tangled love triangle. Assume nothing."
Okay, fine, so if I assume that all of your previous statements are false, then I should know that the ex-wife is not jealous at all, if she seems obsessed with her replacement then maybe she is not negatively obsessed with her, there is no love triangle, and now I've just given away the whole book. I figured out that Nelly was Vanessa on like, page two, and once you know that much, the book is dead. If the book hadn't been over-hyped about how "You'll never guess" and "Your assumptions are all wrong" then maybe I wouldn't have clued into her identity so quickly, but for me I solved the case immediately which led to the rest of the story just being a really long, boring diary of some 40-something's daily life.
Honestly, as Nellie, she was so "me me me" that I really didn't care about her anymore, I was hoping she'd get brutally murdered at some point, but that never came to pass. Nothing interesting, really, ever came to pass. No murder, no kidnapping, nothing. The whole book just left me feeling 'meh'.