Honestly not sure what I thought of this by the end. 

I enjoyed the blend of genres that St. James works with, it made things feel interesting and fun for me and really brought me into the story pretty quickly. I also enjoyed that Shae was a female main character in a thriller with past trauma who DID NOT self-medicate in harmful ways!! Yay!!!

Unfortunately halfway through, as we began to branch into more past timelines and the whole story began to become clear, I rapidly lost interest. We essentially know everything by the 70% mark, everything after that felt boring and kind of like...so what? Not even Shae's moments of growth in the last parts of the book made me feel anything because they were overshadowed by the fact that, like most other thriller main characters, she had to make stupid decisions to lead to the climax. 

Other than that, I really did enjoy Shae as a main character. Beth was also interesting to follow, though I wasn't a fan of her past timeline narrative. I think that was probably my main issue here, I would have liked things a lot better if it was just Shae unraveling the mystery vs Beth telling her the story and then us ALSO getting to read about Beth's story in the past timeline narratives. It felt unnecessary.