Received an ARC via NetGalley.

Full disclosure, I didn’t realize this was a sequel until I was like 15% into the story. Which might explain why it took me a while to connect to the characters. It felt like an odd beginning but eventually I could see why. Despite that, I think it was pretty easy to follow along. I didn’t feel like I was playing catch up.

My biggest gripe though was overuse of the words bigamy and bigamist. I get that she was duplicitous and leading two lives. But I think I could have done with less beating it over the head.

But anyway, once the story got underway, and I had a feel for all the different narrators, I got more into it. I guessed all the twists but I wanted to see if I was right. And I found myself being invested in the characters, especially the boys.

I also liked that the killer is pretty sloppy. At the end, all the questions they ask themselves and the doubt in their plan and realizing they’re not going to get away with it and what they sunk themselves into.. it felt very authentic. I liked the lack of cunning. Not only bc obviously I don’t want them to succeed but bc it’s believable and also it ramps up tension in an unexpected way.