I liked the family aspect, the relationship between mother and daughter as they face grief, but the dramatics started to get repetitive. I almost would have preferred this book be 50-75 pages shorter just so it paced better.

The characters in this book were also fairly annoying. I understand that grief can take a hold on your emotions and blind you from rationality, but Clara was so selfish and disrespectful towards her mother that it only made me angrier with each chapter. Morgan (her mother) spent majority of the novel victimizing herself and that didn’t help the case either. Communication was lacking from all the characters.

There wasn’t any significant depth to the plot, there are no twists that couldn’t be guessed within the first few chapters, and the dual chapters slowed the pacing and timeline in my opinion.