I received this book from the publishers via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Told in verse, the story of Ana and Connor is one that was always going to end in someone's heartbreak - either their own or that of Connor's wife, Rebecca. When Connor dies suddenly, Ana is left alone to grieve as the "other woman" and having no-one to confide in or talk about her lost love to. Instead, Ana becomes obsessed with Rebecca, the woman allowed to openly grieve and begins to configure her relationship with Connor while getting to know his wife outside of the things he had told her.

This was a really interesting story to be told in verse, as have been all of the novels I've read by Sarah Crossan. She manages to take different topics and really create lyrical, flowing masterpieces out of them - you wouldn't think words like "fu*k" and "c**t" could work in verse but they do! I think this is also the first adult novel I've read in verse rather than YA so it was a new venture for me in that way.

There were parts of this I really loved - I think the way Ana's character is revealed to the reader between the different parts of the story was so clever. Who I thought Ana was in Part One was a completely different person with a different life than the Ana I knew in Part Five. The same in how we learn about the real Rebecca (also is her name being Rebecca a nod to Daphne Du Maurier? I wonder!) compared to what Ana always thought she was like because of Connor and this awful, terrifying woman she had built her up to be in her head.

The characters in this - mainly Ana and Connor - are not nice people, and because of this I felt no emotional connection to this story the way I felt with other Sarah Crossan books I've read. I didn't really think Ana deserved any kind of happy ever after, and part of me feels like she got off lightly in the end as well.

But an interesting read, and one to pick up if you are a fan of books in verse, and a fan of the unique stories Sarah Crossan writes.