I didn't really care for this book. I went into the story not really knowing anything about it, other than it was a mystery/suspense YA book...and even after reading it I'm not sure what the point was.

The pacing in this book is just too slow for my tastes. I appreciate a slow-burn kind of suspense, but this was just slow with no burn. At only 275ish pages, I would normally get through a book this size in under three hours. This took me almost four because I just couldn't get into it. The author tries to build suspense by hinting at the twist that we all know has to be coming at some point...but when it does I was left feeling underwhelmed.

I didn't really care for either of the main characters. Gloria is a selfish, spoiled, whiny protagonist and I didn't get the appeal of Uman at all. I see that he is supposed to come off as this mysterious, persuasive, almost hypnotic boy, but what really ends up happening is that he comes across as an entitled, pushy shit.

I'm not sure if we are supposed to take Gloria's word that Uman was not manipulative, but all textual evidence shows that he was exactly that. Up to the very last page, he is manipulating her emotions and actions. Maybe this was the author's attempt to make Gloria an unreliable narrator (This is seriously a trope that I am getting so tired of reading.) but it just made me dislike Gloria even more because it showed just how immature and idiotic she was.

All in all, this book was a miss for me. I'm still looking for a good YA mystery/thriller...