There was a lot I liked about this book. Or- I should rephrase. There was a lot I should have liked about this book. A lot of elements that usually work for me really well in thrillers. The main character is investigating a child trauma she barely remembers, which is a trope I love. There's an organization of amateurs investigating missing persons cold cases that's handled in a (fairly) realistic way. There are a lot of mystery elements neatly tied together without loose ends and it feels well crafted.

But honestly, I was so bored throughout this whole book. I kept waiting for that moment when I was invested and cared about the characters, but it never came. The end got a little more exciting just because closure in any mystery is always exciting, but a superficially exciting ending wasn't enough to make up for so much boredom.

The ending became abundantly clear about halfway through the book. I guess thriller endings a lot so that alone wouldn't have bothered me, but it was irritating that other characters in the book already knew. Alice, the main character, is investigating her past with some people from the missing persons group, and you can literally see them pushing her toward the right answers for the last 150 pages. They're like 'here's this information, you should come to your own conclusions.' It was so frustrating because I knew and they knew, but the main character didn't know so we were all just waiting around for her to figure it out.

I feel bad that I don't have a really good, in depth review since I got this book as an ARC (not in exchange for a review, although still worth noting), but I don't have a whole lot of thoughts. It wasn't bad. Apart from my one complaint about the predictability, there wasn't anything specific I disliked. It was just boring. I'm going to have forgotten this by the time I wake up tomorrow, and that's almost worse than disliking it.