The writing of this book was so genuinely awful that I almost stopped reading it after every chapter.

The writing felt like something a 50 y.o. privileged white woman would write about what they think the lives of POC and non-cis people look and sound like. The entire thing felt clunky, uncomfortable, and clearly out of touch. A random example of out-of-touch teenage writing that really stuck out to me was when a teenage character (presumably a teenager in the year 2017 - but even more out of touch as the years go on) described their parents as celebrating their “silver anniversary”. What teenage would know or care to refer to it as that?

The only thing that kept me engaged was to find out the mystery of who the killer is and it was not worth it.

you spend the second half of the book wondering who did it and trying to solve the murder and it was, of course, the least developed, most boring character it could be?