This is another one of those thrillers I could have gone without.
The pros: I love a good unreliable narrator, which Leah was, to my surprise. I also liked how the book broke the usual pattern somewhere in the middle and then turned everything on its head.
The cons: I had a feeling – by how Leah thought about sociopathy and psychopathy – that either she didn’t have a good education as a psychiatric nurse OR that the author didn’t do their research properly. Some of her reasoning about Isobel was plain wrong, which is why she was blind to a lot of things. While I don’t mind an easily manipulated MC, I found this one to be rather naïve. I guess it’s okay to be naive when you’re a random person, but when you’re supposed to be a professional, it’s less likely.
In the end, this was an entertaining book, from start to finish. I didn’t have much satisfaction at the end, but it wasn’t bad. I understood the trauma that all the characters had gone through, but I didn’t feel it, which means the story was focused on the plot, rather than the character development.
If you like stories about killers and enjoy trying to figure out if they’re guilty or not, and if you like unreliable narrators, then you might like this story. It’s good enough for 3 stars!
-Reviewed by Violeta Nedkova
