Despite its many flaws, this book was initially satisfying my desire for a fast-paced psychological thriller. The characters lacked depth and some transitions were abrupt/choppy but I was still ready to give it 3 stars, until I got to the end. There's SO MANY loose ends that I guess could be called red herrings but they were so poorly executed. 

The Kevin, Q, and Dean story lines just kinda go away and ultimately feel pointless. Rather than clever misdirection on the author's part, the loose ends with those characters were just frustrating. 

Why was someone (Brett presumably?) paying that guy to mess with Liv and scare her? Even if it was Brett, what's his motive for doing it? AND, what's his motive for killing Amy and Marco and attempting to kill Liv? Jealous rage seems likely but still, there's no explanation of how/why he did what he did. So anticlimactic.

Halliday's character was also just weird. I'm not sure why the author bothered to give her a backstory when the character herself had no defining qualities or compelling motives. And why include military stuff and veteran suicide? Was that supposed to be commentary? If so, what did the author want readers to take away? War is bad and this country is fine with people they call heroes regularly killing themselves? Yeah, this is well known and talked about all the time! The author doesn't really add to the conversation so why bother? And why shove that non-message into what's otherwise a low-stakes thriller? Just to "beg the question"?

And the final scene with the bartender felt very forced and unnecessary.

This book was somehow too much and also not enough.