This isn't a great mystery/thriller book, is ok I'll probably forget it in T- one week. The idea was there but the execution was off, but besides that I liked it for what it was.

The problem I had was with the characters, they weren't interesting and because of that I didn't care what happened to them. I had problems with the judge's behavior, He didn't feel real to me.

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But at the end his behavior made a lot more sense

. I didn't like the way Colin was portrayed, we were supposed to feel sorry for him, but in spite of having a tougher childhood and life, ultimately he made his own decisions and he chose to have the life of a criminal, so no, sorry I'm not sorry for you, you reap what you saw.

The other thing that could make this book better is fixing the pacing, it has too many uninteresting accounts of the events, specially the ones from Colin's POV. I liked the timeline and POV switches but I wouldn't have chosen to put Colin's.

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It gave away he was dead, because we didn't have any Colin after POV , so his dead had no real impact

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Finally I really liked the ending and that's why I chose to bump it from 2.5 stars to 3.

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I guessed it right from the start, I even guess Mia wanted to get back at her father, but still I think it's well done and not entirely obvious and that's no easy to do.

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I read this as part of my bookclub, almost everyone hated it, so I wouldn't recommend it, but I liked it.