Too convoluted…full of pointless details that either weren’t narratively important or didn’t add up. I love Thomas’ YA novels but her adult fiction just hasn’t landed for me.

Specific annoyances:
-having a character be a “dumpster baby” for no purpose
-having a character receive a copy of her mother’s 911 call, for no reason
-including details about other cases she’d been a part of with gratuitous violence, that didn’t serve the story
-the random timeline at the end: September is four months post-resolution, making the crime solved in May, a month after the incident took place. She is 6.5 months pregnant on April 2, making her 7.5 months pregnant on May 2. Baby declared viable two weeks later, so roughly May 15, she’s 8 months pregnant. But she doesn’t give birth until July 8. None of those random details were necessary and just pulled me out of the story as I tried to line things up.
-the 30-something woman still pining FIVE YEARS LATER for a man she had kissed one time and had never dated. We are never given any indication on her feelings toward this man, not in any meaningful way.