I could not put this book down! The suspense was very well done, but more than that the subject matter was spell-binding while be excruciating. I loved it but didn't!

I think I would rate this book 4.5 stars....I *had* to stay up until 4 in the morning just to get the whole thing read in one day! It very was suspenseful and I needed to know what was going to happen!
I have never read this author before, but I look forward to seeing what her other books are about.

3.5 rounded up

Couldn't get through it. Too self-indulgent.

I don't have that much to say about this one. I thought it was okay, but still pretty generic. I just feel like I've already read this story before, nothing in it was surprising, it felt like there weren't any plot twists (nothing I guessed was gonna happen happened; things I thought were obvious from context happened instead, in a way that was supposed to be surprising for some reason), which is the one thing that makes thrillers interesting.

I was just generally worried about how in the past Cathy and her friends are all raging alcoholics and somehow that's normal. It's nice that in the present she's aware of how fucked up that part of her life was but I wished it was discussed a bit further. (Worse things that definitely also deserve discussing were happening in her life, but that kind of alcohol abuse in books bothers me to no end. At least it wasn't played off as a normal, regular thing that normal, regular people do like some other books).

Also, what a crime to include a Charlie and a Claire in a book and not put them together lmao.

This is one hell of a book. So immersing, gut wrenching and, addicting.

Right off the bat, you already know who the bad guy is; there’s no mystery to it, you’re not looking for and trying to find the suspect—you know who it is.
Yet, you can’t stop reading, and the more you read, the faster you want to know what’s going to happen.

I wasn’t hooked at the beginning, but I honestly just became addicted to it once I got the hang of the characters and what was happening. I didn’t want to put the book down; I had to force myself to. I love the writing style of the book, I love that the time/setting switches back and forth between the past and the present, I love the character development, the psychological aspect of it, the first and last few pages where we read some of the characters as they’re in court... just everything.

Not to mention that it creeped me out so much to the point where it got me checking all the doors in my house twice more than usual, right when I woke up and especially when I was going to sleep, lol.

I appreciate the time and effort, especially the research the author had done and put in for this book all surrounding domestic abuse—the physical and mental effects of it all that the victims go through, as well as touching down on OCD and PTSD. I also love that she didn’t sugarcoat anything. The story and characters didn’t feel dragged out, or too cliche and unbelieving to the point where it felt fake—nothing of the sorts.

This is definitely going on my favorites list. I’m interested in reading more from her and I’m definitely going to be looking into her other work soon.

Compelling. I wanted to find out what caused Catherine to develop such bad anxiety and OCD.

Not so happy with the ending; while things spiraled out of control, they seemed to wrap up too nicely and in a convenient manner.

This was a quick read, though.

Read in one sitting. Couldn't put it down. Very interesting structure with a past and present story simultaneously told.

I would probably go with 4.5 stars here - it was, overall, a really artfully written suspense novel. In that I felt the main character's paranoia. It basically felt like someone was going to jump out at you most of the time. Interesting themes about mental illness and blaming/not trusting the victim. After a slow start (it took me probably 75 pages to really feel like this book might be going somewhere), I was really loving it and couldn't put it down by the end.