I usually enjoy the ‘finding out secrets about your parents’ trope, but this moved at a snails pace and then too quickly at the end. It seemed like the author was was trying to pack too much into the story: not just about discovering family secrets, but about relationships between mother and daughter, middle age uncertainty, life after divorce, corrupt governments, etc. The pacing was off and it felt scattered there were a lot of details that didn’t serve a purpose that I could discern. It had a lot of potential to be a book that worked for me, with some good shock value, but ultimately didn’t pay off.