This had a really good concept but that's it.

Pros:
- interesting concept
- i wanted an easy thriller and that's what this was

Cons:
- Nothing interesting was done with the concept. There wasn't a lot of nuance to the discussion imo.
- Characters were 2D and bland
- Writing was bland. There were moments when there was really good descriptions but they were few and far between and ended up feeling out of place.
- I guessed the twist. It's pretty easy with domestic thrillers. All you have to do is think of who the last person is that it'd be and that's who it is.
- Nothing happened till the last half of the book
- The constants referring to Michael, the mc's boyfriend/father to her child, being black. Like it got to the point where it felt creepy. There was mentions of their son being one of the only non white children in the class so that made sense. And obviously as a white person I can't speak to diversity within small towns or the experience of poc within small towns. But it was the mc that kept bringing up their skin colour, no one else. And whenever she saw Michael she had to talk about how attractive he was and she always described his skin colour within that. I don't know. Just to me it felt a little fetishistic. But that's just my opinion.