Inexcusable

There seems to be quite a split between the opinions of reviewers: some say they felt quite uncomfortable while reading, and others didn't quite understand what the big deal was, didn't understand why Keir couldn't stop making excuses, or couldn't see through the smokescreen of the “good guy” persona that he has built for himself and everyone around him to grasp what exactly had gone so terribly wrong.

Unfortunately, the people who should most read this book, who stand to get the most out of the experience, will most likely fall into the second category. Keir is dangerously charismatic, and those who are able to recognize how terrifying a person who is unwilling or unable to recognize his (or her) own guilt or culpability after finishing this book have been careful readers. Hopefully those same people will translate their experience of this particularly unreliable narrator into their assessment of others like Keir.

Violently self-assured and manipulative, Keir is a classic abuser, and how lucky for Gigi that she is able to see this and that she has a raw fear of him. How lucky that she listens to that fear and is able to walk away.