Probably one of many posts about this book you will see but this is the first actual book i have read since middle school and boy was I hooked for the majority of the story.
One thing I love to do is formulate theories and I am pretty good at figuring out the ending before the book ends and I just couldn’t with this book, the extra semen sample, the door slam that Adam heard, Kelly (possibly?) being a murder I was so excited to see how it would all unfold and tie together…. and then it didn’t.
The big plot twist reveal was just huh? Made no sense whatsoever to have an unreliable narrator in this context. There was no hint, no build up it feels like the story was made without the ending in mind.
Not to mention I hated that Sarah left whether Kelly actually killed Bob’s brother/if she was actually abused by Scott open ended. (might be implied by Bob wanting to kill her but still no motive for that she just murdered him apparently) The cloud of mystery still surrounding Kelly at the end of the book was so unsatisfying.
No clarification of what the relationship between Sheriff Stevens and Kelly was or the weird and unnecessary tension between Stevens and Sarah like what was that?
Kelly’s eyes being described as brown and then as blue later in the story…
Who visited Sarah at night? Bob? Was she masturbating? I have no idea also what happened between Sarah and Kelly at the beginning of the story the night of the murder?
ALSO WHY DID NO ONE SUSPECT SARAH? Maybe her act after seeing the crime scene photo was to make her the poor innocent wife who was cheated on but if people could suspect that Scott (the other husband) found out and killed her then why was the same suspicion set of Sarah?
Overall I enjoyed the theories I came up with more than the story, would have been much better if Sarah had revealed she was the murder from the beginning, defends her husband as cover is trying to navigate the case while keeping suspicion off of her and maybe Stevens and her have a power struggle of suspicion and sexual tension.
I’m just really disappointed with how the story played out.
by reinerenthusiast_