The Things We Do to Our Friends is a dark suspense novel following Clare, a student who has just reinvented herself after an "incident" caused her family and former friends to cut ties with her. Soon after Clare moves to Edinburgh for her fall semester, she meets an enthralling group of friends, led by the bubbly and magnetic Tabitha. As Clare becomes more entangled in her new friend group, she learns that you can't always escape your past.

I enjoyed the dark academia this book offered, but I think otherwise it fell flat. As I read, I anticipated a climax or a big event of some sort, and it was very anticlimactic in the end. I think the writing was great, however the plot wasn't quite there to me, it felt incredibly vague. I would have loved more details and to feel less like the plot was being kept a secret from the reader. Some mystery is appropriate, but I never got the sense that the veil was lifted here, so to speak.

Thanks so much to Random House Ballantine as well as Netgalley for an eGalley in exchange for my honest thoughts.