This was a swing and a miss for me.

Not to say that I wasn't engaged, but I think the fact that I was roped in for the middle act only to be let down by the ending is what's having me walk away from this one with a sour taste in my mouth. And I did go through quite the journey on this one: my attitude towards the protagonist went from dislike in the beginning to genuine concern for her well-being at the end, but the twist that I went out of my way to avoid didn't land for me and made me feel like my time was wasted. Never something you want out of a book.

Without giving too much away, I'm never a fan of media that basically posits a message like "Isn't mental illness ~scary?~ Wouldn't it be terrible if you were ~crazy?~" Like yeah, of course it would be, but it also seems mean-spirited and cheap to even go there with a premise. I figured out what was going to happen around maybe 70% through the book and convinced myself that surely that wouldn't be the twist ending, only to be sadly proven right.

Also not crazy about books that lend themselves to being read more than once to 'really' get it. I know that can be rewarding to some people, but I'm not one of them.

Simply put, I'm not sure that this was a story that needed to be told.