I'll admit, I'm a little harsh in judgement with "thrillers" with the "twist you never saw coming" ... it annoys me how author's are always dropping little red herrings along the way, setting up suspects then the big "reveal" ...

First person/present tense for most of the chapters. Then there are the "podcast" sections ... one thing that really annoyed me is that these didn't even get their own listing (as a chapter or a section) in the table of contents.  Looking at the TOC (and while I didn't have a physical copy of this book, I assume it follows the trend of not even having a TOC) you can't tell where the podcasts are. I feel like they deserved their own listing, that readers might want to jump to the podcast sections/re-read ... I'd write up the titles of the podcasts for my own reference, except that it would be too much work to try and find them all in the text (they were at the end of some of the chapters). 

I'm normally not a fan of musical interludes in audiobooks (I had this in both audio and Kindle), because this was a set "podcast" recreation, I didn't mind it here. While I'm an audiobook addict, I've actually never listened to a podcast. This is the closest I've come (I think it'd been featured in another book or two that I've read/listened to). 

There was a lot of humor, and our MC is snarky. She's got amnesia (convenient ... not to sound like one of the characters, but it's something that seems to happen in books/movies, not really IRL) the night of the murder, so she doesn't know if she did it or not. She had no reason to, Savvy was her friend. But she has these imaginings of killing people, this voice in her head "let's kill" (which was annoyingly creepy in audio, a little over the top) that we/the reader are absolutely aware of. Red herring. 

Grandma guilts her into coming home - she hasn't been back in five years, since the murder. But she goes back now, when a podcast has brought her into the national limelight. I guess it needs to happen to move the story forward.

I guess I just get annoyed at all the coincidences and happenstance ... I'll suspend disbelief completely for fantasy and sci-fi and won't nit-pick and think "could that really happen" but in "realistic" books, I get a little snarky myself. 

SPOILERS

everyone is sleeping with everyone. Savvy just happened to have murdered someone in college and gotten away with it (even though she's "The Sweetest Girl You Ever Met" (title of the first podcast). Reveals of Savvy and that it's HER voice (not paranormal, just Lucy's imagination) that Lucy is hearing ... she's not so sweet! That Emmett would resort to murder - I mean I understand he was frustrated, but still, taking that step to murdering people? That Lucy just happens to not remember. That Emmett trusts that she won't ever remember and come forward.

Some things I highlighted - mostly things that tickled my funny bone over being something profound :) 

An insult doesn’t have the intended impact when spelled incorrectly.

People like to claim that food tastes better when it’s made with love—like how their grandmother’s pie didn’t taste right when they made it, so it must have been the love that made it good. This is bullshit, in my opinion. It was probably just extra butter or better-quality sugar that made it good. Dad’s cooking is proof of this. It is not made with love; it’s made with resentment and disappointment. And it still tastes fucking great.

... had she created a whole new memory around the bad information?  Lucy couldn’t tell what was real and what she was creating to try and remember. ** I always find "memory" and witness statement accuracy interesting **

What kind of twenty-two-year-old boy wants to get married these days anyway? We’re not Mormons, for Christ’s sake. ** Ha, Hubs was a 22-year old Mormon boy when he married me **

...he always tasted like booze. Or smelled like it. It was seeping from his pores ** alas **

...I don’t love it. **I once made a "I didn't love it" statement and it's been a joke between Hubs and I ever since. This sounded so similar it made me laugh. **

Lots of language (proFanity x 89), lots of sleeping around, nothing super explicit in the descriptions/sex scenes. 

I'm know I'm a hard judge for contemporary murder mysteries - I can definitely understand others really enjoying this one.