Had me at childhood best friends/neighbors; that's one of my favorite kinds of relationships to read about! I think my biggest complaint might be that it took a little too long for Janie Vivian to start feeling like a dynamic character instead of just this girl Micah totally idolized. (Not quite at the level of manic pixie dream girl, I don't think — and it definitely got better as the story developed and we got more of her POV — but it was maybe a little questionable at the start.)

This really is one of those stories that reminds you everyone's fighting their own battles, and it's not always obvious what drives them. I definitely predicted what happened to Janie — called it from the start — but it felt like that was the only possibility that really made sense, so. And I didn't see the arsonist reveal coming, but once it made sense the truth was so, so satisfying.