Storyline: Intricately plotted
Mood: Suspenseful
Style: Atmospheric

What a wild ride! I was very entertained while reading this. The writing was very atmospheric. I really felt like I was in the Scottish Isles as I could visualize the setting so clearly. The audio production was also incredibly well-done so I highly recommend the audiobook as well.

My reading experience actually made me realize that I do enjoy reading mysteries. They are very fun, and I like wondering what is going to happen next. So I do want to explore reading more thrillers in the future.

There were many great quotes, mostly about grief, in this novel too.

"Grief is a patient thief and steals far more than people who have never known it have realized."

"Success is often the result of a series of failures. Try to remember that. You never learn anything from success, but failure can teach you everything about a person. Especially yourself."

"Are there any benefits to losing it all? I think about that a lot. Your thoughts can change shape when you have too much time on your hands. Overthinking the things you think you need to worry about, underthinking the things you should. The only good thing about losing everything is having nothing left to lose."

"People rarely know what they have until they lose it. They spend their lives searching for a better one, wanting more, needing more, blind to the fact that they already had it all. I think sometimes it is only when something gets taken from a person that they appreciate what they had."

"Wives think their husbands will change but they don't. Husbands think their wives won't change, but they do." 

"Grief is like a fingerprint, different every time. Mine is not like yours and you are not like me, but I doubt that is within your spectrum of understanding."

"Men still rule this world and as a result the world is broken. Men still hold most positions of power, men control governments, men control the media, and it is always men who start wars. Men have tricked women into thinking they see us as equals, but real equality, for all women everywhere, still feels like little more than a pipe dream." 

"Nobody really knows anything. The only certainty in life is uncertainty. We're all just a bad roll of the dice away from being right back at the bottom of the ladder we spent our whole lives climbing."