I liked this ... 3.5 stars. I'd seen so many rave reviews, maybe I was expecting something more? 

I borrowed the audio and the Kindle copy from the library. There are five parts ... 
1. Gabriel, 
2. Bobby, 
3. Jimmy 
4.Frank
5. Grace

Withing the parts, there were continuous numerical chapters (60 total) ... and these chapters shifted between time periods "Before: starting in 1955" and the "present-ish" 1968 and The Trial (1969) so, later than "the present".  All three storylines were told in the present tense. For me? Even though the chapters were labeled, as I was listening to the audio, sometimes I'd miss the one second statement of "Before" or "1968" and then I'd be thinking to myself "wait, are we in the past portion, or the "now"??"  I couldn't help but wonder if my experience would have been improved if the "Before" had been told in past tense ... just to provide more distinction and, it's logical, the past, in past tense! I was grateful that the headers were included in the Table of Contents on the audiobook, so that I could stop and look at my phone to determine which timeline we were in.   All 1st person - Beth's perspective. 

The "future" ... the trial (and the twists) honestly, it annoyed me. The purposeful misleading and obscurity. We/the reader don't know who was killed or who is on trial and it's so drawn out.

I think I struggled a bit with the characters and their choices too.


SPOILERS 

We didn't really know how Bobby died (that obscurity, purposefully misleading us, thinking that maybe it was a shooting), a bit of a relief when the accident finally happened. It was sad (and I'd just read Freckles a couple months ago, tree falling accident there too). When the final confrontation happened, I wasn't surprised at all that it was Luke, I had suspected that a bit before. I really did NOT get them having Frank take the fall. Hiding it all might have been worse for the boy in the long run, beyond destroying everyone else's life.  Then there was the twist that Bobby had been Gabriel's son ... I actually hadn't seen that, although I probably should have. The pregnancy then, the pregnancy "now" ... that's when I got really confused with the timeline jumping around so much.

So - I didn't really feel the urge to stop and highlight portions or take notes. I don't know that I'd go out of my way to recommend it. I wasn't dying to discuss it ... I looked up some "book club questions" on Google. 

ProFanity x3 ... some sex, nothing super explicit but not closed door.