because it was in the synopsis, i thought the death was gonna happen way before. that it would impact the plot of the whole book, not just the few last pages like it did. it was so close to the ending we barely get to experience the aftermath of everything.

with greta also being in the synopsis, i thought she’d be an important character, that we’d get to know her. but no. she did a few mean things behind the scenes that didn’t actually matter that much. we don’t even get to really know why she got so hyperfocused on sarah. we literally learn NOTHING about her. she was a pretty flat caricature.

i liked that we got to know the way sarah’s mind works, but i also wanted to know more of what was a going on outside of it. she’s at a boarding school and interacts with almost no one. we don’t get to know much about the dynamics between the students, or about the school itself. 

i liked strots, and the relationship between her and sarah. but again, IT WAS NOT THAT DEVELOPED. they didn’t talk much and they didn’t hang out together besides their bedroom. we also didn’t get to know that much about strots. and then out of nowhere, they were each other’s ride or die. the way they acted after they got like that was something i really liked reading, but there was no build-up before they shared their deepest secrets with each other.

i wish the story had a balance between sarah’s relationship with her mind (which we got) and with the external world she was in.

i just wanted more of the story. i was really interested, and it kept me interested, thinking i’d get something, and then i didn’t.