I didn't want to put the book down. The storyline and characters are so real and interesting, and the storytelling is so well done that it feels like the reader is there alongside the characters.

when Lydia about how David lost some of his fingers in a garbage disposal during his college years, right after discussing how the hammerman shoved his hammer into the garbage disposal, I thought it was going to be revealed that he was the hammer man, and it killed and his teenage years. I really enjoyed that the story was revealed slowly for the characters to process as adults, after it was so fantastical to them in a childhoods. The mystery villain who scarred her for life being someone she and her father trusted and the whole situation happening because of an infidelity pushes the whole axe murderer trope into something far more mundane.