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Still have yet to find a thriller I like. Characters were very 2D, the nerd roommate, the boyfriend that doesn’t really love her, the group of friends. The roommate cycles through all of the options of who could have killed April, one by one accusing all of her friends and now husband. It felt like there weren't really any clues until the end on who killed April, only info that showed the kind of person April was (kinda a bitch), how the relationship between Hannah and Will grew, and why Hannah accused who she did. The clues that are discovered are either ignored and never brought up again(April being pregnant) or lies to get us to believe that one of the friends did it. I don't really understand how the guy Hannah accused was convicted in the first place. The ending, where it is finally revealed that Hugh killed April because she was blackmailing him. April found out that Hannah and Will were having an affair (never mind that she was also cheating on him) and so wanted to prank them by pretending to be dead. Hugh was helping out, telling Hannah that she was dead and to go call the police. While she was out of the room he strangled her for real and killed her. Hannah finally figures this out and so he kidnaps her and is going to kill her but Will shows up as well to save her. The wrestle, Will is shot but lives, Hugh is shot and dies in a boring thriller twist. Hugh turns from a normal guy into a criminal mastermind, and then there is that dumb cliched thing where we think Will is dead for a while. I hated it.

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dark emotional mysterious fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated

4.0

I totally thought I had guessed the killer, and was being led down paths that would make me correct, but I never saw the twist coming! But she ties it up and brings back details from the rest of the book to show how you missed it!

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4.0

It takes a lot for a mystery to genuinely surprise me but...well done! I must say, the titular It Girl sounds like such a pain in the ass, I had to knock it down a star because no one would ever be friends with this person. Also, our narrator is so simple, she could not have been granted admittance to the fictional Pelham in the first place. The best parts of the book were those that took place in the past and these parts were absent from the tedious last 200 pages.

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