Amanda

I actually had a hard time putting this book down once I started. It is, as Riley Sager usual, very easy to read. There were multiple POVs that at first seemed a little unnecessary but ultimately added some depth to a suburban cold-case story.

This was a fun read but does take a little bit to get going. Once the story gets going, the pace gets better but a good chunk of the first half is backstory. Completely necessary backstory, though!

This book didn’t quite land for me and I think it was because I had different expectations going in. There is a time gap between this and book 1. I feel a lot of the character growth happened off the pages so right off the bat in book 2, while they may be the same-named characters, they’re fundamentally different.

So, expectations are pretty important for the story to land right.