hmmm this was totally going to be a 4 stars until the last 50 pages or so, but i guess that's what you get with a mystery novel.

this book had twists on twists on twists which made it, and very little filler in between - would be a great movie

the writing though, a little atrocious. the author can't write a paragraph without at least one hyphen, random capitalisation and bold... it's like they just learned how to use Microsoft Word. But yet and still a 5 stars so yeah

The modern-day references were icky... named all of the Kardashians for what...

I liked the amount you could do with the characters, all four of the Kristals (incl jobeth) had such interesting motivations for their actions and I liked that we switched POV for them all to be unreliable narrators for different reasons, but not in a stupid way.

The dream stuff could've been cut and sometimes the chapters do weird timeline things, which though fine, was overdone.

Also the forgiving of Jobeths biological mum is a bit ?? and what happens to laurie, she's complicit ig but if the truth is out I think she deserved a more sympathetic ending.

This feels a little scathing, but my jaw was on the ground at multiple times in this book and it's my second 5 stars of the year (first fiction 5 stars!).