I'm picky with mystery/thrillers, so this one was fine, but not really anything special to me. I liked the characters and the overall story, and especially toward the end I got invested with what was going on. It was a fun story overall and I was along for the ride, but I'm not sure I'll pick up the other books in the series.

I didn't really get along with the writing style. It felt kind of stilted to me and didn't flow well. The scenes were all very short (generally less than two pages) and it made the book feel a little jumpy. I was never able to get in a good rhythm with it. The dialogue also felt off, like the characters were always over explaining themselves.

The physical descriptions of characters were a lot. Almost every time we were introduced to someone new, the narrative would pause and we'd get a paragraph describing their appearance. Sometimes, we'd even get multiple descriptions, like when a different POV character was introduced to them. I get that physical descriptions are important, but it always felt jarring to me and kind of over the top. On page 201 (of 214) we were introduced to a new character who existed only on that page for that one paragraph and there were six sentences about her, down to the allergy bracelet on her wrist. It felt so entirely unnecessary.

To be honest, this reminded me a fair amount of Agatha Christie. I read a handful of her books last year for the first time and gave them all three stars, so maybe it's just not for me. If you're a Christie fan, you will probably have a much better time with this than I did.