Couldn’t decide if I wanted to rate this 4 stars, or 5 stars, so 4.5 stars it is.

It’s safe to say this book definitely kept my attention as I finished it in a day. It was a gripping story where I just had to keep reading to find out what would happen next and to see how Sloan planned to get out of certain situations with Asa. There were a few times I did not see certain things coming and I even said to myself, “okay, Asa’s been caught but there’s still so many pages left so what the heck is he going to do next and how is he going to do it?!”

Asa was clearly abusive, obsessive, narcissistic, delusional, etc. he was a great villain in the sense that as you’re reading you do hate his character and his actions toward others. I think the possible suffering from mental illness storyline because his dad did was an interesting concept, but at the same time, there were times I was reading where I kinda felt like those with mental illness were being villainized simply because they had a mental illness and it was giving off the impression mental illness was the sole reason they were evil; rather than them just being terrible people.

I did like reading about Asa’s childhood as it did give some backstory into why he grew up to be who he was. I also liked that Sloan decided to go to his funeral and the words she stated to give herself, Luke, and her future baby closure in everything they’ve had to endure with Asa.

I did like the multiple points of view to see what each person was truly thinking and the reasons why they did certain actions, as each character would have their own perspectives as to why another character may act a certain way, even if it’s not really the case.