I struggled greatly to finish this book. While I read many thrillers, I don't read many with this level of grisly depiction of torture, so that was unsettling and not really to my taste.

The chapters are short and change POV regularly between the two main characters - Alysa and Morgan, and the time period frequently changes between present day and "then". For much of the book I was fairly confused and sometimes I just had no idea what they were talking about. Theirs is a curious kind of friendship, or perhaps I should call them frenemies. There seems to be a great deal of mistrust, deception and antagonism between them although they proclaim to be best friends.

Things started to make more sense to me in the second half of the book, although I was left with lingering questions - likely things I just missed or misunderstood. I recognize that this seems to be an unpopular opinion, but this book missed the mark for me.