Three people - two best friends and one husband, and three is a crowd. When a husband and wife clash over the wife's best friend Temi and her behaviour, relationships come crashing down all in one night.

This book is fast-paced and feels a little bit like watching a car crash as you follow three people, some of whom are not very nice - one of which is awful - drag each other down and kick each other while down there. This is told in three different POVs - the wife, the husband and then the best friend Temi and each story is slightly different, and we really see each character from different perspectives and how their behaviour is interpreted by each other.#

The book is very much about an extremely controlling, toxic friendship between the wife and Temi - so bad that the wife definitely doesn't even realise how controlled and manipulated she is by her friend. It was really shocking switching from the wife's POV to the husband, and seeing the relationship from his POV and things that had happened. I didn't think I would but I genuinely felt so sorry for the husband at how he was treated in his own house by Temi. I found it frustrating and hard to understand at times, as I could never imagine a friend treating my partner that way but nor would I ever allow it to happen as it's so disrespectful on many levels.

Because of some personal experiences in my own life with toxic friendship, I found parts of this book quite hard - Temi's obsession with her friend and to control her even in her adult life, and her strange fixation on plans they made as teenagers around marriage and children, and how apparently this needed to stay the same into adulthood.

There's a couple of hared moments in this in regards to gaslighting as well but I also think this book is good at showing that gaslighting can come from different sources - not just a romantic or sexual relationship.

I didn't really find this book a nice or satisfactory book to read. It's actually quite depressing and leaves off at an abrupt point in the story with no resolution or peace of mind for the reader.