Incredibly juvenile, like bad fanfic or a shitty screenplay--so much telling and basically no showing. The reader is constantly being told how to think and feel rather than being invited to come to their own realizations and conclusions. The execution was so amateur. There's a lot of effort being expended on the author's part with very little payoff. Plus, much of the "mystery" of this book was achieved through unnecessary lies and withholding of information (both between the characters and for the reader). Somehow I got sucked in enough to see it through to the end but it totally wasn't worth it. Even the thrill/suspense/mystery was horribly executed. Kinda embarrassing how bad this book is.