This was - generally speaking - a fun mystery with a sweet romantic side plot. I enjoyed the mystery plot, which is really saying something, because I'm super particular about that. The mystery really unfolds in unexpected ways. All of the clues and puzzle pieces were well laid out and the progression of the mystery felt very natural.

The romance was a little insta-lusty, which I don't mind, and while inside of the book, you kind of forget that Sam and Teddy have only known each other for a very short period of time. It's only now really that I've been away from the book for a while that I realize that that all happened in the time span of a couple of days.

My only real qualms with the book were 1. most of the minor characters are portrayed with very flat, stereotypical depictions of what wealth and privilege looks like. In all fairness, there's a lot of characters here and we didn't get a lot of time to know them all. So take that for what you will. 2. I thought the choice to have the Spanish spoken during the book written out in English even though the character through whose narrative we are experiencing the book doesn't understand Spanish was odd. I'm not sure how I feel about things that were happening outside of Sam's purview being completely unknown to us with the exception of this one thing. Tack on that then the Spanish would be translated for Sam so we'd read the same text twice? Bizarre choice.

For me, these are relatively small qualms and didn't impact my reading much.

That all being said, I had a fun time with this.

CWs: references to f-slur, misgendering, death and dead bodies

Thanks to NetGalley for a copy of the book in exchange for an honest review.