Clever plotting and a few neat twists ultimately don’t save this thriller from its chronic lack of detail and utterly lifeless writing style.

What should have been a gripping, twisted mystery falls somewhat flat due to extremely generic writing and a cast of one note characters. Although this novel did pick up around the halfway mark, it wasn’t a satisfying read for me. The writing was its weakest point, the author described things very generally and matter-of-factly in a way that could have been an asset to a mystery like this but came off as boring, each character spoke and thought just like everyone else, and this book frequently told, not showed, what was going on. All that coupled with characters I couldn’t even begin to find a reason to care about and a complete lack of clues for the reader to pick up on throughout the book (it was one of those mysteries where you could never have pieced it together with the information the provided, you had to wait until the author revealed something new) made for a rather uninteresting read.