One By One

Man, what a letdown. The premise was decent, the writing was great, the characters were good, the story was captivating...and then the last third happened...

Everyone who hyped “the twist” did this book a disservice. Not only was the twist not that good but the whole thing was choreographed miles away. It was like going into an M Night Shymalan movie.

I'm willing to give Frieda another chance because she's really good at setting up a story but the plot to this one was...well, it was bad. The actions the characters made were questionable the whole time. The further the story went along, the less it made sense. The motives for the, ahem, “plot twist,”...I feel insulted.

TL;dr version: Frieda seems like a good writer but this generic, formulaic pulp feels like the hype might have been paid for