Sarah

So boring! And frustrating!! Why do I want to hear about this guy screwing over women over and over and over again? I got a little bit excited when there was a murder but then that was just glossed straight over and forgotten and we're back to cheating and lying

Exactly the same as the first one but worse in every way. The plot was all over the place (and I hate the resolution which felt way too deus ex machina), the message was way less subtle and I just got super tired of being hit over the head with it. I get it, I agree, you're preaching to the choir, please stop hitting me.

Someone take the unreliable narrator trope off these thriller authors omg!!!!!!! This isn't even how it works she had the narrator outright lie to us. You're meant to just leave things out!

“You'll never see this twist coming” well no because it didn't actually make any sense, the narrator flat out lied about what happened and you're telling me that Abby managed to climb back up a rock cliff while cloroformed????? And then instead of going to the police planned a year long revenge?

Also the idea that Grady would have a vasectomy without telling his wife and Abby would literally get pregnant without telling her husband, that is the most toxic marriage I've ever seen

The only thing this did right was it really nailed the atmosphere of this creepy island, the writing felt very claustrophobic and atmospheric so that's the one thing stopping me from giving it 1 star

Solved this at about 90 pages in so either the flu has given me super detective powers or Christie was slacking on this one

Would hope everyone knows this is my favourite series of all time so I'm not going to write another essay

but a few thoughts
-interlude 1 hits like a brick
-Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do lives in my head rent free
-the character regression/development is absolutely chefs kiss perfection