This book was sold to me as more profound than it really is. "Parasite meets The Good Son in this piercing psychological portrait of three women haunted by a brutal, unsolved crime." <-- where is that book? 🥲

The structure of the story seemed under developed - jumping around in time and to different characters, with different writing styles in each chapter. It felt more like a draft of a novel than a fully developed one, and at just 170 pages I think it has a lot of potential to be fleshed out. 

The writing style came across as naive and juvenile, there were so many drama bombs dropped that had little to add to the plot. For example,

the scooter boy gets leg cancer and becomes disabled (for pity points I guess?), his single mom with 2 different baby daddies has dwarfism (again, why), his sister (who is in her 20s) starts sobbing when he tells the dead girl's sister she needs to leave because his mom is coming home, etc. And the police interview and tele-psychologist are so contrived, it is like what a kid imagines authority figures to be like.

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