I was given an edition of the book for review purposes by Netgalley UK. All of my opinions are my own. 

This book was very hard to review, because I wasn’t as invested for about the first half of the book as I had hoped, mostly because of the slow pacing - but it definitely had me in the end and I loved the depths of the story. Other than most mysteries/thriller stories where the introduced suspects often turn out to be the murderers gaffer just a few chapters, the story unfolded in a completely different way, giving all of the many characters enough time to tell their stories. The many POVs were a bit overwhelming at first, but really helped to tell the story of an unsolved murder with very dark twists. 

3.25/5 ⭐️

This book would have been a lot less dry had I just eaten it instead. 

Apart from the obvious racism, ableism, classism and absolutely horrendous character- and worldbuilding and the very… questionable writing style, it was okay. Definitely not a book for me.

(Edit: why does the author feel like the reader is too dumb to understand the plot? Everything kept on being repeated and all relevant points are given to you in the most obvious form ever. Just wasn’t fun to read when you could basically tell the whole book from the first few pages and as soon as something new and powerful was mentioned, you knew Violet would get her hands on it anyway)