This book was not quite as quick of a read as I expected for me, and then when it picked up, my work and family became very time consuming, so I had little reading time.

I am not normally a mainstream thriller reader, but this was very enjoyable and I look forward to Reich's other books on this spiral. I liked the characters, although I found some of the activity by the main character and her friend to be odd. I also hate when random bits of physical description of a character are thrown at you without any complete picture, so you can't really get a good guess at how to put the character in your mind. For instance, based on circumstantial evidence, I gather Tempe to be in her 40s and a very tiny person. Yet her interactions with other people led me to think of a woman in her 20s. It was a bit distracting.

One reason it was a slow read was I found very early on that one of my reading times: lunch was not a good time to read this book, I never knew when gore that did not go well with eating would suddenly turn up. That's a good portion of my reading time. I don't mind gore, but her gore sometimes gave me a queasy stomach, and I could not read it while eating.