✨I should've DNF'd this✨

I did not enjoy this and I was relieved to finally be done with it. This may end up being a harsh review, so apologies in advance. While I could appreciate the prose within this book, the story just fell so incredibly short to me. The mystery revolving around Arden murdering Evelyn before turning 18 very quickly lost its shine and soon became a strong annoyance. This book was repetitive and it felt shallow to me. With how often this story jumped between lives and time periods, I found it extremely difficult to feel any sort of connection to these characters. Not to mention, I stopped caring about when, where, or who we were with each jump. It was challenging to keep my mind from wandering while working through this story.

This reminded me of The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, and I honestly didn't care much for that story either yet it was a lot better than this one. The romance did absolutely nothing for me. I think the inability to develop a connection to these characters played a huge part in that sentiment. The minute I felt like I was getting comfortable with where the story was headed, we were thrown into another life and time period and all of that progress went back to 0. This turned into a massive slog for me.

When the motivations behind Arden's murders were finally revealed, I found myself unable to care. I just wanted to be done reading.

Beautiful writing, but the structure and characters really did not work for me at all. I heard such great things about this book and desperately wanted to give it a chance but I should've saved myself the trouble.

Here's to hoping that my next read is leagues more enjoyable than this one.

Goodreads Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7366091847
Fable Review: https://fable.co/review/7dd18eb6-ee01-4f98-a1bd-ac9d0c716f72/share