Trigger Warnings: death, graphic depictions of violence, funerals, mention of blood, anxiety, parental neglect 


What I liked:
🔫This is the first book I’ve read that had a non-binary character (and being NB not being their only personality trait)
🔫the concept of this book as a whole is good, even if the execution wasn’t all the way there
🔫Once I did figure out the killer it was cool to go back and see the clues that would have indicated that it was them 

What I didn’t like: 
🔫These characters, especially Lia, did not act like seniors in high school. I felt that their behaviors and tendencies were immature for the most part 
🔫 I figured out the killer pretty easily after one incidence that happened at the halfway point 
🔫I would say the first third of this book is a slow start 
🔫The writing style of this author was not it for me. It almost feels like it didn’t go through editing to chip out the unnecessary moments/portions of dialogue 

I wanted to like this book so much because the concept was great to me. The execution lacked so much and the characters were incredibly flat. Lia’s only personality trait was being obsessed with Assassins because she’s apparently mediocre at everything else. Even by the end she was still boohooing about not having a path and how her parents would probably go back to not caring about her as much as her brother soon enough. The other characters barely existed, and I had no feelings about the ones who died because I didn’t even know them. This story was a classic case of the teenagers being smarter than the cops and the cops not even trying to do their jobs. The writing style made me want to quit so many times and there were so many things that seemed like they were missed in editing or that were just unnecessary and made the story confusing to read.