I don't tend to gravitate toward thrillers/mysteries in my reading, but I would really like to get into them a little more. This book was one I purchased off of Book Outlet months ago because I was intrigued by the premise and the cover.

While I enjoyed the book as a whole, there were a few things that hindered me from rating it higher than three stars.

For one thing, the use of flashbacks in this book was so overdone. Every single chapter had flashbacks. I even noticed cases where we would get flashbacks WITHIN flashbacks. There were entire chapters that were one big flashback. It grew tiresome. I feel like there should've been a different way to effectively relay information to the reader.

This is a symptom of a larger problem for me, which is the overall structure of this book. Almost without fail, every chapter was structured the same:

1. The current scene is set and we learn where Hannah is/what she is currently doing.

2. She sees something or someone says something that throws us into some sort of flashback that gives us background on the characters

3. We jump back into the present time and Hannah learns something mysterious about her husband.

4. Hannah attempts to rationalize it or berate herself for not trusting her husband. Most of the time she does both of these things.

It got really old. Within the first 3 pages of chapter 8, there were three flashbacks. One of them was referring to an incident which had just happened a few minutes prior. Why?!
This structure made the book feel repetitive, even as the story was progressing along.

My other problem was that nothing shocked me in this book. Now, that's not to say that there weren't twists and reveals that I wasn't expecting. I was able to get through this book easily because I wanted to know how all of these clues were going to tie in together. I had a few theories along the way, and for the most part, I was wrong. However, I also figured out was the ultimate climax/twist was going to be about 70 pages before we actually got there, and I feel like that could've been averted if the book's pacing was better. There is this big info-dumpy section that feels like a 'big reveal' about 80 pages before the end, but because it's obvious that there is a big chunk of book remaining, it was safe to assume that something else was going to happen. It didn't take much after that to piece the puzzle together.

All that being said, I do think that this could be a good book for a person who is just starting to dip their toes into mystery/thrillers. It's not difficult to follow, and the story is pretty straightforward...with the exception of all the flashbacks...