I really was looking forward to this one after reading the first book, and was a bit disappointed to not get a physical ARC, but once again, losing my contact at Disney has kept me from a few newer books. Of course, the covers wouldn't have matched so I guess it's better this way. I did get it on Netgalley, so I got the chance to keep up with the story. And boy am I glad that I did! This book had even more twists and turns than the first one! In fact, there was even one part at the end when we've finally sorted out all the sordid past betrayals and secrets that I had to repeat one character's line out loud to help myself keep all the new family lines and branches straight. I loved how once again the author started the story with our main character, Sawyer, and her friends in a situation that you knew they needed to get out of, but that she kept only giving you bits of them maybe getting free in between all the chapters telling the past and what happened. Not to mention we even had a further back part of the story, with Aunt Olivia and others of the parents in the story. While I assumed we were just learning to be more sympathetic to certain characters through that, and while I wasn't sure exactly why we got the viewpoint of one of them, it all came together in the end, in such a way that totally had me in shock. Definitely another great mystery with the snarkiness of characters that I grew to enjoy in the first book.

Review first appeared on Lisa Loves Literature.