It was an entertaining read, and the author revealed just enough information --via clues--for us to put together parts and pieces of the story. One thing that really stood out to me was how Tom really played an innocent party from the beginning, even though through the book we find out that he had played a hand in the death of Ruby's mother, and that he had known about her for a lot longer than he admitted to Cat. It goes to show just how little we really know our friends, families, lovers and partners, as those who wish to keep things from us will do that.

Personally, this book wasn't a first choice of a read for me. I got it as part of the first reads program from Amazon, or from one of their free books programs, and put it on my list of to-read as I'm not one who gets a book without trying to read it. This is a good attempt at a psychological thriller, but honestly, it feels a lot like the Girl on a Train type story. I don't know what it is with the psychological thriller genre, but it all seems to include a part about gaslighting the women characters, who have a drinking "problem", in the book. This part peeves me, so it was kind of a turn off. Furthermore, there are parts of the book, where my interest in the story-line dried up because it was confusing, had nothing going on, or the relevancy to the story wasn't clear.

If you're into reading the same type of storyline by all means read this book, but I'm not recommending for you to take this, especially considering that there are tons of other books that are more interesting.

What starts as a sweet lil family story soon turns into the most dysfunctional family with a bunch of dirty secrets. I couldn't turn the pages fast enough!

DNF at 10%...skipped to the end to find out i predicted part 1 of the ending right away, but not the other part of the twist. But i didnt care. I felt no connection to any characters except freya

More like a 2.5. Pretty predictable and took a while to get interesting. But not terrible.

This thriller had me hooked - a selfish manipulative child out maneouvring an adult psychotherapist?! And Tom is a complete and utter prat.

this was a great, creepy, compelling read

Good but

Was frustrating to read through the entire time that this seemingly intelligent woman is being manipulated and lied to. Might be just me but seemed hard to believe she’d put up with the rudeness and blatant lies as long as she does, considering her personality. But it was still interesting. I did skim through about 100 pages in the middle of the book and it was still enjoyable. Skimming didn’t make the ending hard to understand either.