I liked and didn’t like this book. If I am frustrated, then interested, then frustrated, then interested - I have to finish the book, obviously, because I wanted to see if what I thought happened actually happened (it did!).

Heard this is being made into a movie, so I am interested in how they will do it!

I liked this, but it was more of a mystery than a psychological suspense story. It's more following one character, an ordinary guy, as things happen to him and he tries to figure them out. I preferred [b: The Kind Worth Killing|21936809|The Kind Worth Killing|Peter Swanson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1417981750s/21936809.jpg|41240456], which has more moral ambiguity and twisted perspectives.

Overall this was OK - for a while I thought I might just put it down and move on to something else, but then I got into it just enough that I figured I'd continue. The story revolves around George Foss, and a woman he knew in college who comes back into his life. The author moves back and forth between the woman's disappearance halfway through freshman year, and a new mystery involving her in the present. I liked that format, but I found that the mystery in the present was maybe a little overdone, particularly at the end.

Amazing book, one the best thrillers I ever read, with great characters and plot twists but... what's the thing with the ending? Is there a second volume?

This was definitely not the book for me. I suppose I’m not as interested in YA as I once was. I found it hard to enjoy the story, even though I liked the dual timeline approach. I didn’t like the characters, as they were all pretty manipulative and enabling of one another (especially George).

A really quick read, kept me reading on until the end. 3.5 stars. Loved the femme female lead

another pretty solid thriller from Peter Swanson. this one was super twisty and i was definitely intrigued by the mystery but again was nothing special! this book had like smut in it ?? like ?? Peter Swanson has some weird obsession with sex but who's surprised. anyways, officially read all of Peter Swanson's books woohoo that being said go read The Kind Worth Killing and Her Every Fear lmfao

George is having a midlife slump and then his girlfriend from college, who he hasn’t seen in 20ish years, walks into his local bar, needing him to help her out of the mess she’s in.

This book felt like a noir movie, but I just couldn’t buy into it. I found the story to be slow, predictable, and trite. This book has two time lines, and I thought that the college time line worked a lot better, which caused the story to drag more for me. George was such a dull character to me that having him as a narrator was painful. Also George at 40 something was basically the same character as George at 18. One thing I did enjoy was the open ending of this story, I was glad to write in an ending that I found less painful than this book.

Very good - kept me guessing.