It wasn't bad, but it wasn't amazing either. The beginning of the story is not only slow but REALLY confusing. And main characters are all too plain.

I also didn't like some stuff that wasn't "closed", like all the Travis issue and what happened to him (as a reader, I know, but the case was never closed for his girlfriend). And I wished they would explain a bit more about EXACTLY what happened to Matthew´s Family and to Ruby. Because that is not really explained but hinted. I would also like to get an Epilogue with the Savaria case resolution -what happened to the cops-.
And I would definitely like a confirmation on the identity of the "mysterious woman who visited the gallery" -even if readers can guess it-

Even if I had my suspicions, for a long time I was really lost with so many names and characters that seemed to be totally unrelated and author didn't give any information about them. More than once I had to go back to the first chapters to check on names and descriptions so I could at least try to understand if they were talking about the same person or not.

NOW, the plot is amazing. I really liked it. The author have a certain something I can't describe, an ability to think of really interesting an unexpected villains. The book just kept surprising me with every page I read. Every theory I made was wrong until the very end. I loved that.

I'm really happy the story didn't get a "Disney happy ending" but a real ending instead. It would have been really stupid if, at the end, Ruby appeared from nowhere. I also like that the author doesn't give a real ending to the main "couple"'s story.

I'm not a fan of crime stories, I'm more of a paranormal books reader. But I really enjoyed the plot. I just wished the events at the beginning were faster and the resolution slower. Cos I feel like I've been getting ready for the investigation to get "intense" for over 200 pages and then, everything suddenly ends in less than 50.

There's another thing that I admire about Amanda Stevens and is the way she includes in her books a lot of topics that are normally considered "taboo".

All in all, the book was really good, just hard to get into it. It feels a bit incomplete, leaving a bitter taste that keeps me wondering about some issues that weren't solved. It might be on porpoise, it might be the author's style. I don't know, but I just ended up having a lot of questions that got no answer.

I wish I could give this book 3.5 stars. 3 is too low, 4 is too much.