*Thanks Faber for sending me a copy of this to review!*

I was so intrigued by this book that upon finishing it I can’t help but feel anything except profound disappointment. If you’re looking for a book with mystery/thriller elements with eerie atmosphere and an interesting cast of characters, I’d say go and look somewhere else.

Above all, I think this book was boring. The premise sets us up for such a great, twisty story but it just fell so flat. I honestly could not have cared less about these people if I tried. Though it was brilliantly written and I liked the writing style, it still end up flat. There was no real emotion or sense of urgency at any point, this book just felt so two dimensional. For something that’s supposed to be thrilling, it did not fulfil that criteria at all. I was bored. For a book of this genre also, it was slow and borderline uneventful. Every time something questionable was happening, we’d get absolutely no answers. It was very unsatisfying and confusing to finish.

The length of it was a source of conflict for me, on the one hand the short chapters and small length made it snappy and easy to power through. On the other hand, it just felt like everything that could have built suspense or character was skipped over and the book ended up losing elements that would have given it more depth to a shorter length.

This book was just neither here nor there for me, it was just very average and I finished it with no strong pull either way. I don’t see what the point was though.