I can’t really pinpoint exactly how this book made me feel. I wanted to keep reading but it felt like nothing significant happened through the first three quarters of the book. I think I wanted to keep reading in hopes of getting to an ending where everything finally turned out relevant but unfortunately it didn’t do that for me.

I think part of the issue is that this is marketed as a psychological thriller when it is far from. Maybe I would have enjoyed it more going in and expecting it to be a family drama novel, I’m not sure.

The blurb intrigued me enough that I decided to give it a try from a second hand book sale, but honestly the first 280 pages or so barely covered anything to do with her brother and what happened, it was all about her marital problems, drinking problems and finding a new job. 

Not to mention the fact that she dated someone who was 23 when she was 16 and literally NO ONE pointed out how weird and wrong that was. It’s also mentioned that her brother’s older friends all “look at her differently” since she turned 16 which is icky and not sure how it was relevant to the story at all.

I’ll give it a point for the fact that I didn’t expect the culprit at the end but it was a bit far fetched and it wasn’t a big AHA moment. There was not enough foreshadowing for my liking so it kind of felt like a weak attempt at a plot twist. When we did find out what happened “that night”, however, there was no big revelation and it was… exactly what I expected to happen.

You could get through this book just fine by reading only the flashback chapters and the last 50 pages or so, that’s really the only parts that had anything really going on.