meh. at some point this was building up to something promising but then it lost me.

i'll admit this is not my familiar genre, so i don't know the standards and conventions, but that usually means i'm easily impressed. here, i rarely felt surprised even when twists did take place. 

i didn't like Cope. to me he was a prime example of "men written by men". i might dig through my copy later and edit this with some examples, but he was giving casually misogynistic, sometimes racist remarks throughout the entire book. i guess i still didn't completely hate him and there were other characters that were more annoying, but if there's a first person narrator with these kind of flaws it always makes me wonder about the author.

in general i felt like the message and the theme of the book were quite muddled. but maybe that's on me for going into a thriller with the expectation that there will be a message. as i said i'm new to the genre. 

this wasn't awful. i had fun and it kept my interest while reading it, but the ending felt rushed and unsatisfying which dampered my reading experience. i might still watch the netflix show that the unremovable sticker on the book cover advertised. we'll see.