This book like all the thrillers contains some plottwists. Now. One of them to be suprising leens on the society's bias towards poor people and crime. If you don't automatically assume poor person is doing the crime you will not be suprised. Another plot twist or rather two banded together are based on the nurture vs. nature dialog. The dialog that is so easily used to look down upon adoptees. If you are not comfortable with that ( and I am not) this book will annoy you to no end. In short even though this book stars two gay men ( to be honest the most represented LGBTQ+ part in media) it is very harsh towards people in poverty, women, bisexuals ( yep cheating bisexual trope here we go) and finally children that had misfortune of having partents that were addicts. Also main character with his snobbery and good looks sounds like terrible self-insert nobody asked for.

Like many thrillers nowadays, the premise and initial plot is good, but is tarnished somewhat by the author’s apparent need to fit in as many plot twists as possible into the final few chapters.

It’s not an unenjoyable book, but I found a lot of the character’s motivations flimsy at best, not to mention the seemingly random insertion of a character’s history of violent thoughts in the final chapters in order to give them a motive for the murder the book is based around.

I feel like there were some interesting points to be made about wealth and classism, but the author never quite got there. There were just bits of things within the story that made me wonder how much of it was an intentionally unlikeable character and how much was the author’s actual POV via the main. I won’t ever know, obviously, unless the author has said anything indicating his views, but there were just some lines that threw me off. Same for the bisexual character- it felt weird, and heavily relied on bisexual stereotypes. If there were any larger themes the author was commenting on, I don’t think it was well done enough.

As for the plot itself, I didn’t think that the character motivations made much sense. I guessed the basic plot fairly early on, but characters didn’t seem to have any depth. It felt more like they adjusted to whatever was more convenient to the plot (for example, Titus, going from sweet to angry to cold and calculating with no real progression to any of it). Some bits of dialogue felt fast and even though explanations were given for (most) things (though I don’t think the bedroom incident was ever actually fully explained by Rachel) it didn’t make sense to me as motivations for what happened. I definitely read this book quickly, so I was invested, but I feel like the stars given for this book are for the potential it had and not the actual story I read. 

this book was slay cuz of the plot but i hated all of the characters and it was way too drawn out and slow. some of the writing wasn't very good and some of the plot was a bit confusing  *spoilers after this*     it never really understood how tituses character changed and why and it was super confusing why rachel took the blame like ik it was explained but i still didn't understand like if she had always wanted to kill him why did she go through so much work to involve herself in his life and then take the blame cuz she had always wanted to kill him so wouldn't she be mad idk her entire motive was unclear to me 

Honestly, the title and description of this book promises so much more than it delivers. A collection of unlikeable, poorly written characters, unnecessary twists for the sake of twists and a plethora of brand name dropping made it quite a difficult read; never really engaging or engrossing. The 14 year old son almost felt like he'd been written as older and then his age was changed at the last minute, especially given an inappropriate, age related crime that was completely glossed over and used more as a plot point for the boys parents, which felt uncomfortable at best, and neglectful and an injustice to young boys at worst. 
The other characters were written very similarly, and given that it was written from two characters perspectives, I found it difficult to identify which was which without having to double back to the start of the chapter to clarify. 
The plot with its twists felt odd and unbelievable, and not in a good way; I understand the concept of holding back info from the reader until you want them to know, however it meant that something happening didn't make sense in any way when it first happened, just far fetched and unjustified, and then didn't get explained, as a twist, until near the end of a book. It led to me not believing or accepting the initial characters decision and stopped me from engaging from the start, disappointing as the premise of the book held so much potential and I'm gutted I didn't enjoy it. 
The book covered classism in an odd way, the name dropping kept it fresh in my mind that the main characters were posh, upper class and rich, but it felt so forced and unnatural and braggy, and thus I never engaged with these characters. Even the 'lower class' character of the book didn't feel believable, moving to London on a whim, living in an expensive borough (in a cheap nasty apartment block yes, but the rent would still be unfathomable for this character) with no rush to get a job, and then she lands the job of a lifetime when it gets handed to her on a platter, again, I can't get behind this. It does mention she is moving on some form of inheritance, but a chunk of money enough to move to the centre of London would be substantial enough to no longer be considered lower or working class. 

I pretty much DNF'd this book after the use of

statutory rape of a 14 year old

as a plot device, but skimmed through the last halfish so I could leave a genuine review, it didn't even deserve the skim if I'm honest.