I am torn on the dual time/dual narrative structure - it helps with pacing in this book but I find it generally overused and possibly a reflection of an author who cannot weave together an effective narrative in chronological order. But that's just a personal bugaboo...

I think this book would have been better served by seeing the Hollis Henry / Flannery Butler truth reveal to its full completion. The shift from that dynamic via a ridiculous moment into the whole Joetta/dead twin brothers back story took all of the heat out of this for me. I didn't need this packaged into some tidy, palatable to society ending. Why not break the whole story open and bring out what should have been the consequences of the book's key event?

Up until the last Hollis/Flannery interaction, I was giving this a 3.5, maybe 4. Then it sank faster than the Mercury in the Kentucky.