Unfortunately, this was yet another book that hasn’t been marketed properly. There was no mystery of thriller aspects in this book at any point throughout the story. The description of this book is so horribly misleading the person who wrote us should be fired. 
Reading the description of this book we are led to believe that the majority of the story will take place after our main characters exile from her family estate, her time in boarding school, and then her return to her family estate once the exile has ended when she’s in her 20s and the book will involve an adult uncovering family secrets. 
The entire book takes place when the main character is between the ages of 11-16 except for a handful of chapters at the end. It was so incredibly misleading and made the book so disappointing because it was so hard to connect with the main character because she was so young. 
This book also read like historical fiction throughout despite it taking place between 1992-2001. It would have been better marketed as fiction, an old money family drama than a mystery because even after finishing the book I have no clue what the mystery was. 
I also wasn’t a huge fan of the writing style. It felt very forced and over the top at times. What was meant to be beautiful prose was confusing and poorly structured sentences to me. 

I really wanted to like this one because I love a story about old money drama and intelligent women but this story was just so far from how it was presented that it made it hard to enjoy it. 

Thank you to Atria for the advanced copy in exchange for an honest review.