This book started off fairly tame, gradually got darker and more suspenseful, then got very brutal very quickly. I did enjoy the non-linear pacing; it worked really well with the events as they unfolded. Some empowering messages and important takeaways, though the ending was a little too clichéd to be wholly satisfying after a dual narrative so charged with guilt and revenge and relentless drive to find and fix the truth of the past.

(As a side note: the reason it took me a relatively long time to finish this book is not that it dragged or overwhelmed, but simply that I started college and couldn't always find time to pause and just read.)