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 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 a story about killers and trying to figure out if they’re guilty or not, and if you like unreliable narrators, you might like this story. It’s good enough for 3 stars.
-Reviewed by Violeta Nedkova
