I really enjoyed Girl A, but this second novel of Dean's didn't work for me. It was an interesting premise exploring themes we can recognise from real life school attacks such as Dunblane and Sandy Hook. But the switching of narrative voices often felt jarring, slightly confusing and didn't always seem to go anywhere. I felt the characters were fairly unlikeable and the plot did not build tension, there was nothing unsurprising and I just wasn't invested. This was a disappointing read for me, I read it to the end hoping that it would bring something clever to the plot arc, but sadly that never came.
This honest review is given with thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for this book.