As a fan of the Shameless Bookclub I was intrigued to read this one after hearing the hosts gush about the fast pace and devour-ability of the novel. Whilst I can appreciate the mystery of the novel and the way in which it was told, I'm not sure it quite reached the hype I was hoping for. 

After meeting at the pub one night birthday twins Alix and Josie become entangled in each other's lives when Alix agrees to interview Josie for her brand new podcast. What Alix doesn't bank on is how easily Josie slides into her home and seeps into her life. 

I did enjoy a number of things about this novel that are usual box tickers for me, this includes; duel narrators and shifting formats (narration and transcript of a Netflix Documentary). In addition, I liked the title and how I continually came back to it and questioning what was true and how reliable were the words of the characters that I was reading. The first 75% of the novel was very devour-able. 

Unfortunately I thought the plot really slowed towards the end of the novel and it really dragged for me. In addition, the heavier topics explored also weighed me down. I usually like to leave a read pretty quickly when uncomfortable themes are included. The biggest let down for me though was that I felt like the reader was really left to make their own interpretation of the truth, sometimes I love this and sometimes I loathe it. In this case I loathed it as a felt like it was such a large part of the tension for me and when it was released at the end it was frustrating. 

Overall I am glad that I read this book as it was the thriller read I needed at the time but, I do recommend that you check out the trigger warnings for this read as some of the content is confronting.