Think Week 2021: Overwhelmingly middle of the road. I had heard great things, but ultimately, this book just didn't do it for me. Not even with a Sara character who spells her name without an H.

Keane tried to cover too much ground, and ended up diluting the story. I felt that the pace of the plot seriously dragged at certain points, and in others, I had to double back to check what was really happening. I felt like I only got to know Kate & Peter, which would have been fine, except why then was so much of the book dedicated to other narrators?

Perhaps I just read this at a point in time where I'm disinclined to be sympathetic to cops, and I might have felt differently if I read this a couple years ago. At least [redacted] is 100% fired and not just transferred to another department. I finished the book completely on Team Kate (but not even on Team Francis, which just how sad!)

For a realistic fiction novel, where the author has described the characters as some of the realest she's ever written, I just couldn't believe that this was the plot she threw them into. I didn't buy it! It felt superficial, which is crazy because there was a lot of heavy stuff in this book. At the end, I felt like I was finishing this book just to finish it (never a good vibe).