1.5 stars… this makes me extremely bad because I’ve been listening to Alaina’s podcast for 5 years now and I love her SO much. However…

Wren is completely one dimensional with no personality whatsoever, and her past is thrown into the book towards the end of the middle as a plot device that had absolutely no lead up or foreshadowing. It felt extremely random almost. Every person written in this book, especially wrens poor friends and husband, are even worse written as they are just there for a couple sentences to progress the story then discarded. I forgot she was married at multiple points, and it only took me two days to read it.

And Jeremy. It makes no sense how he went from in control to not so much. No spoilers, but he’s pretty damn one demential also when he could have been used for better understanding of wrens past and foreshadowing for plot to come.

Not to mention parts of the plot feel dropped into place suddenly all through the book and the descriptions of little things from the scenes lacked making it feel more real and make it feel like a general description in a movie script that the actor was supposed to run with and make feel more real.

Overall, I wanted more. More fleshing out the characters and scenes, more descriptions, more flow to the plot.

I’m sorry morbid girlies