This was such a good story. So often thrillers that are dual timeline feel disjointed or jarring, but this one flowed so smoothly. I loved both the past events and current events equally. They wove together beautifully.

And the story itself was just fascinating. It's pretty easy to guess where it's going, but it's such a good ride getting there. All the characters are great, but it's the plot that pushes this forward more than anything. Just wanting to watch all the events unfold.

The podcast didn't work for me at all. I don't usually like when a character's creation is included in a book (their art, podcast, writing) because often it just doesn't fit. Either I don't think it's good so it's hard for me to get behind a story that insists it's amazing, or it's random and out of place. This was the former. I'm hoping the podcasts that were included were just excerpts that left out the good bits, but they were so vague and bland and pointless. Like she'd having interesting interviews with people and include literally none of the information. Maybe Goldin was trying not to be repetitive? But it seemed terribly researched and lacked basically all pertinent information. And Rachel didn't even seem like she was putting that much effort into the podcast in the story. She'd skip out on the trial to go do something unrelated.

I'd highly recommend. This was a great thriller and I had a such a good time reading it.