2022: Meh, this mystery did not do it for me. 

The novel started off very strong, and I was on board with the first half of the plot. But one of the first notes I wrote down was "I hope Theo is an unreliable narrator, because he sucks AND he's a terrible therapist". None of the staff at The Grove were particularly sympathetic towards their patients, and every scene that took place there was painful to read.

This book is FULL of red herrings, which to me just ended up feeling like it was crowding the book up with subplots that never went anywhere. Was the Christian subplot real or another fabrication of Theo's brain? Who is Eva? Why did he make such a big deal about Max or Jean-Felix? And why was Barbie even included? Oh yeah, red herrings up the wazoo here. 

It drove me crazy that the entire plot revolved around notes from Alicia's diary, and the diary chapters we read included full dialogue and whole conversations. NO ONE'S DIARY IS LIKE THIS. Also, I'm not confident that it passes the Bechdel test?! Literally unacceptable in a book with a female narrator. Like did Alicia not have any friends who were women? I'm pretty sure that she and Barbie only talk about the stalker (a man).