While the vast majority of this book kept me deeply engaged, the last fourth went off the rails. The Virginia and Lenora reveal was fantastic, but almost everything after was a bit much. Kit’s father being Ricky was a lot, his need to try to tie up loose ends ultimately just to save Virginia and kill himself was a lot. His confession to assisting Kit’s mother to suicide was a lot… also our only indication the Patrick ever worked at Hope’s End is his anger towards rich people, which is not unique or different in anyway than what a normal person may feel towards the ultra wealthy? In the end this man who is basically nonexistent in most of the book has a kill count of 4 (including himself). The final reveal the Virginia CAN walk and talk is a lot as well, I think perhaps it would’ve been better if it was revealed that she was paralyzed but could talk or literally anything else that was maybe just a BIT less extreme. 

Plot twists that were good: Archie and Ricardo, that was a fun little twist. The Lenora and Virginia twist was good but was also the most predictable one I think. Jessie being the granddaughter was a fun little twist, I suspected that she needed to matter somehow more than just being the maid in the house. Also, the fact that the Hope mom is actually who killed the father was good, it did seem like there was too much surrounding the murders for it to have been as straightforward as one person.

I will say I don’t think Lenora is nearly as bad as Kit makes her out to be? While her plan was crazy she was under the impression her sister was paralyzed and had killed their parents… what was she supposed to do? I think Archie staying and going along with it kind of proves how it wasn’t too cruel? Her craziest thing was staying at Hope’s End while it crumbled. But truly just based off of how she treated Kit when she figured out the switch I think Virginia could probably have revealed herself to her sister and both their lives would have been immensely better… it was a prison of their own making.