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Some of the prose at the beginning was beautiful, but honestly it became grating by halfway and then lost all its power by the last quarter.

The suspense and atmosphere had no payoff for me; it felt like there was such a big disconnect between the fear he talked about and what was actually happening. I understand what it was doing, I just don’t think it worked and I didn’t care about the protagonist at all. It ended up a boring, violently misogynistic mess and was such a disappointment.

Absolutely fucking amazing

There’s so much going on in this book. The pacing felt strange, with almost too many red herrings to keep the story running smoothly. After every non-lead I’d find myself frustrated and shutting the book for a while. It felt like a lot of it was unnecessary and took away from the true horrors of the situation.

Written in a weird format, the POV would jump from first-person present tense, to third person past tense, but not evenly so it felt disjointed rather than truly compelling.

I did enjoy it enough to finish it though, which is good sign.

Frankly, Ginny is a badass and I would read anything with her as the protagonist because she was much more interesting than the actual protag (sorry).

Couldn’t really empathise with Del. Hated Charlie. Hated the whole plot around Charlie from start to finish, actually. The writing was decent and god, I wanted to like this book so badly but I just couldn’t deal with the characters.

Terrible. Couldn’t even make it halfway through. The idea was great - the execution was beyond terrible. The writing was stilted and unrealistic, every character was a token something (it didn’t feel like representation, it was forced and written badly).

Just ... bad writing. Bad character development.

I’m very glad I got this from the library and didn’t have to pay for it. I couldn’t recommend this to anyone, not even kids.

I loved this book. The ONLY thing I would've liked is a little bit more detail toward the end of the book, about Lucy and Kaelyn's relationship. The little things. But wonderful book!