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carinascatsandchapters's review against another edition
3.0
*spoilers ahead if you haven’t read the book don’t read this*
HOLY. HELL.
At first I was skeptical about this book. It took me a minute to get into it, I felt like there was a lot of establishment. Which now makes absolute perfect sense.
By having Theo as the narrator, wanting to help Alicia, you want to trust him. He makes HER seem like the one with the unreliable story.
But instead, we have a classic unreliable narrator. Just simply set up in a brilliant way. I truly thought we were operating in a single timeline all the way until the reveal… until that final scene felt all but too familiar and I realized what had been happening all along. Kathy was cheating with Gabriel.
Throughout the whole book I thought Alicia was innocent. There were far too many suspects, too many people with motive to kill Gabriel and frame Alicia. But this twist surprised me. I wasn’t expecting it to be the one other character in the book that as a reader I thought I knew so well.
I LOVE the fact that Alicia ended up being reliable. That her diary entries were in fact accurate. My friend and I had talked lightly about this being similar to Verity (which I enjoyed but not as much as this one) and yes, both have that unreliable narrator. However there was something so much more twisted here. The element of surprise was so much stronger where as in Verity I knew the ending twist almost the whole time.
I FLEW through the second half of this book, but I especially love the set up and would love to see this in a movie form too. Is that a thing? Has someone done that? It gives me One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest vibes….could be incredible.
HOLY. HELL.
At first I was skeptical about this book. It took me a minute to get into it, I felt like there was a lot of establishment. Which now makes absolute perfect sense.
By having Theo as the narrator, wanting to help Alicia, you want to trust him. He makes HER seem like the one with the unreliable story.
But instead, we have a classic unreliable narrator. Just simply set up in a brilliant way. I truly thought we were operating in a single timeline all the way until the reveal… until that final scene felt all but too familiar and I realized what had been happening all along. Kathy was cheating with Gabriel.
Throughout the whole book I thought Alicia was innocent. There were far too many suspects, too many people with motive to kill Gabriel and frame Alicia. But this twist surprised me. I wasn’t expecting it to be the one other character in the book that as a reader I thought I knew so well.
I LOVE the fact that Alicia ended up being reliable. That her diary entries were in fact accurate. My friend and I had talked lightly about this being similar to Verity (which I enjoyed but not as much as this one) and yes, both have that unreliable narrator. However there was something so much more twisted here. The element of surprise was so much stronger where as in Verity I knew the ending twist almost the whole time.
I FLEW through the second half of this book, but I especially love the set up and would love to see this in a movie form too. Is that a thing? Has someone done that? It gives me One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest vibes….could be incredible.
cedrichkz's review against another edition
dark
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
4.0
coyotes_tiptoe's review against another edition
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
adaglas's review against another edition
5.0
Everyone is so right about the plot twist in this book, definitely a page turner and crazy when it all comes together!!
ashleyyychambers's review against another edition
3.0
Definition of plot twist. The ending was something I didn’t see coming, I almost gave it 4 stars solely because it caught me off guard, however the writing just wasn’t great. The book started out strong, got super convoluted, then ended with a bang.
filippa28's review against another edition
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.75
I loved the ending so much its such amazing book but it hade somthing i did not like there world be conversations that made me bored
panthalassa's review against another edition
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.25
livlovesjesusandwillow's review against another edition
dnfed. i really wanted to like it but it didn’t feel right.