I wouldn’t say I was ever bored reading this, but I do think the pacing in the first chunk is quite slow. Giving this book a thriller tag is generous. 

That being said, once it picks up it’s like watching a car crash that you just can’t look away from.

This book was genuinely funny, and also served as great social commentary and a critique on White/privileged liberals and cultural appropriation in publishing.

I enjoyed that the victims in this story weren’t “perfect victims”. Even though we view Athena through the very biased view of June, I do believe that she leeched other people’s trauma for her own profits. Of course, June was still completely in the wrong for stealing her manuscript. 

While being 95% unlikable, I think June’s jealously and feelings of failure are sentiments that we all can relate to. And even though she’s an even less of a “perfect victim” than Athena, I do think

that she was a victim of the assistant. To be literally haunted by the ghost of her frenemie is horrible. And June didn’t get the assistant fired! She didn’t even ask for that. And maybe a controversial opinion but I do think the assistant posting the negative GoodReads review was unprofessional.