This is the second J.T. Ellison book I've read and I've decided I'm not a fan. First, this book could've been about 100 pages shorter. Second, it's basically a less well-crafted Gone Girl.

Rather than clever or twisty, the plot felt both convoluted and repetitive. There was a lot thrown in at the end, including entire backstories for characters that were only recently introduced.

Like Gone Girl, this book aims to examine modern heterosexual marriage but the groundwork done by Ellison throughout the novel is completely flipped and thrown out by the end. I don't want to spoil the ending but I will say that the state of the couple's marriage at the end felt very forced and conveniently neat. All the dysfunction and emotional abuse that both partners engaged in suddenly doesn't matter anymore. Overall a pretty mediocre story with a let down of an ending.