I was very excited to read this book and I was a bit disappointed when I did. It was good but it definitely wasn’t amazing. 

The mysteries
I was very excited by the puzzles and mysteries aspect but they just weren’t that good until near the end. The reader didn’t really get a chance to solve them alongside Avery and this might be a personal preference but I prefer books where you get the same information as the main checker and are able to try and solve the mystery yourself, so when anything is revealed, it is surprising.

The reveal  that Sky was the one who helped Drake try  to shoot Avery didn’t really surprise me. As we already knew it was probably one of the Hawthornes, I suspected either her or Zara. The reveals about  Emily, I did find more interesting but I still think as we already knew she has died and it has something to do with the Hawthorne brothers, the plot twists were kind of ruined.

I didn’t think there were any plot twists in the book which really shocked me except for the end. 

The characters
There were quite a few characters in this book who were I though were really well developed such as the brothers. I was worried that they wouldn’t be too similar and I would get confused but they each had quite distinct personalities. I also like Libby’s and Avery’s characters. The one character who I would have liked to see more of was Max. We didn’t really know much about her other than that she had strict parents and the not sharing thing got quite annoying!

I also thought it meant when Max got annoyed at Avery, I didn’t really care as much as I might have if she had been a more developed character.

The romance
I think this was my least favourite part of the book! This book would probably have been better if it had focused more on the mystery and not had any romance.

I don’t normally hate love triangles the way that some people do but this one was just bad. It made sense to have it with Emily but with Avery it made no sense. If the author really wanted to include a romance, I think they should have just done it without the love triangle. I think the romance might have just been used to morir what harkened with Emily which hopefully means it won’t continue in the later books!</spoiler >

While I didn’t enjoy this book quite as much as I expected, it’s still a really good read and a YA mystery that doesn’t create around a murder. It also ended on quite a cliffhanger so I am very excited to read the next book!