It took me awhile to really sink into this story, with stops and starts along the way as i tried to predict what was coming. But once I let the story lead me, I couldn't put it down.

Maya is a flawed and compelling main character, whose decision making is so questionable, but also understandable due to her experience with emotional and psychological manipulation, as well as substance abuse. Frank is exactly the type of antagonist who keeps me up at night: able to inflict pain without ever raising his hand or having anything seem amiss, constantly causing his victim to overrule their own sense of what's right or wrong.