This book was such a mess. I wanted to DNF about half-way through, but saw so many reviews talk about the mind-blowing ending and how they just couldn't believe the amazing twist...so I pushed on, hoping that there would be something, anything that would surprise me.
Spoiler alert: There wasn't.

Trigger warning for all sort of messed up stuff, including rape and graphic violence.

There was nothing I liked about this book, so let's move on.

1. It was predictable. I knew who the killer was about a hundred pages before it was revealed. We are supposed to think that its a different piece of garbage character, but it was obvious that he was just a red herring. Then after it was revealed (around the half-way point) there was still another 150 pages to wade through. And nothing else happened. Which leads to my second issue...

2. It was boring AF. The characters were miserable and lacked depth. I was intrigued by Cher and her story and would probably have read a book about just her and her journey...but this book ain't it. After the 'reveal' of who the killer is, there's another 150ish (I listened on audio so I'm not sure exactly how far into the book it was) pages of nothing. I didn't care about Lisa/Colette and her issues, and I didn't feel like I knew enough about any of the other characters to really care.

3. It was unnecessarily grotesque and graphic. There was a serious lack of description throughout most of this book, with the exception of scenes that felt like they were designed to make the reader nauseous. One described a peeping tom masturbating as he watched a female character undress. Other's revolved around the killer and his sick obsession with preserving his victims and the repercussions of doing something like that in your own home. I don't want to get too into the details of the things that were said, because like I said, it's disturbing. And really, it was excessive. It felt gratuitous, especially when it is the third or fourth scene saying pretty much the same thing.

4. I disliked the writing style. Within a paragraph he would switch from third to first person and sometimes even from one character's perspective to another. He was trying to show each character's inner monologue, but it ended up being a big jumbled mess.

5. The end. The ending lacked tension. It was obvious exactly what was going to happen.

First of all, Cher is in the police station at the beginning of the book, so you know for a fact that she ends up making it out of the situation, so the entire chapter with her and Thomas completely falls flat. Secondly, did anyone actually think that Colette was going to end up dead? And the police inspector being a bad guy...none of these 'twists' held any real surprise.

I will not read anything else from this author in the future.