this book started out really strong for me as a slow-burn literary thriller, but by the end elizabeth's unreliability as a narrator (which i do enjoy when done well) got repetitive and the story felt pointless, like it was trying to tackle too many concepts but lacked follow-through on any of them. there were a lot of side plots that ended up leading nowhere and this frustrated me as well. i will say the writing style was where i thought the book really shone, but ultimately that's not enough to make a plotless novel interesting or to give mysteriously flat characters depth.