Maybe a 2.5 rounded up. This was mostly a breeze to read, often a page turner, but felt kind of silly in the end. One of the main things going for it is the reveal of new information with each POV shift, but it gets old reading about the same events over and over.

The plot and the device are the main draw here, not character. Each POV involves characters explicitly explaining the motivations for everything, like a movie villain monologuing. It was all about putting the intricate plot pieces together.

I feel like there might have been a message in here about who’s responsible for kids who do evil things, but it got very muddled. Are we blaming moms? Or not?

If you can put aside how ridiculous the events of the story are and how artificial each POV is, I think it can at least be entertaining.