This book just didn't work for me. It felt too disjointed. There were perspectives that got more development than they needed, leaving me wanting something that wouldn't even be relevant to the story and there were underdeveloped perspectives that had a lot to do with the main plot that could have benefitted from some more page time. I think in the end she was trying too hard to make this feel like one of her older works when it was really something different and should have been treated as such. The author has found something that works for her, and that I really enjoyed, and I wouldn't be opposed to her trying something new, but I don't think adding unnecessary subplots and characters just to give it the Morton "feel" is the right way to go about it. If Elodie's perspective had been a prologue/epilogue type thing, Lucy's getting more page time and more relevance and Birdie's being a bit more everywhere and a bit more comprehensible in the beginning, this really could have been a gem.