Mmmmm I have mixed feelings on this one. 

First of all, it's clear from the opener that Jenkins in on top of her game when it comes to writing. She frames the whole story within the context of a fire that's going to envelope the estate at the end of the book, bringing you hour by hour as we inch closer to the the time of the flaming blaze. 

However, when it comes to the actual story, I found it wasn't so engaging. Her writing keeps you reading, but I found I wasn't overly invested in the characters to keep picking this up after I put it down. They were easily forgettable as soon as I wasn't reading. This is interspersed with flashbacks to the character's parents, and later their younger selves. This was the highlight of the book, and where most of the real story is. It's over just under 50% through the book. The rest started to feel like padding. We started getting one off POVs from new character's who had no stake in the Riva's life and don't serve any purpose to the main story. I think there's something interesting happening here but I'm not 100% sure we got that story.

There's a lot of drama and I wasn't particularly invested in any of it. A worse writer would have had me put this on DNF.