4.04 AVERAGE

challenging dark mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

Lisa Jewell does it again- she has yet to fail. Spoiler: Everyone in this book is fucking crazy. But I love it and just as soon as something is starting to make sense, everything has changed again. What really happened? What’s really the truth? Because even though it’s over, I still feel like I’ll never really know. 
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brancrisp's review

5.0
challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

knapp21's review

4.0
dark tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
dark emotional mysterious fast-paced
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meggarr's review

4.0
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

The first out-and-out thriller I’ve enjoyed in a long while! I’d recommend listening to the audiobook if you can. Being able to actually hear the podcast elements of the novel was really fun!
dark mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

ashleyml's review

4.0
dark mysterious medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark mysterious tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
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hazel_64's review

5.0

Such a perfectly executed thriller novel! I love it, GOSH. I felt horrible and sick about most parts, but what a brilliant read!!! I've been reading trash thriller books for so long that this one feels surreal, It's just a brilliant unfolding of all plot twists with God knows how many unreliable narrators, a full family of it, so 5 of them. I read some critiques that Walter's crimes were glossed over, etc; I don't think so. I don't remember reading anyone mourning over him except his daughters, who were also unreliable narrators, so there's that.

This book issa perfect pack of pedo, alcoholic, sociopath, psychopath, and narcissist. And the gradual execution of this dark plot was just GORGEOUS!!

I loved it, so glad it's my first read of Lisa Jewell's writing. I wish that box full of all her books magically appears at my doorstep. \⁠(⁠๑⁠╹⁠◡⁠╹⁠๑⁠)⁠ノ⁠♬

shysmiler91's review

4.75
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes