Alex Michaelides is one of those authors people want to like, think they should and then are disappointed. I had seen average to below average reviews of this one so my expectations were low. I think this helped me to enjoy it more than others. I won't say it's great but it is good literary entertainment. It was also probably a lot better on audio.

His admitting that this is not a whodunit was clever and also helped me not get frustrated or annoyed, because it isn't. It's not a thriller as such but has a lot of psychological turns. I felt that he managed Elliot's character well even though you can kinda tell he's not quite right from the beginning, it was still a pretty good twist towards the end.

What I didn't like was that minuscule tie to his first book The Silent Patient right at the end. Unnecessary and oddly a bit egotistical?