I didn’t realize until I was done, but this is a modern retelling of Theodore Dreiser’s An American Tragedy. Modern indeed, in that it’s set up to mirror a true crime documentary, with multiple narrators and voice actors. Knowing that gave me more appreciation for the book, but even if the structure was an interesting literary experiment, the execution left something to be desired. I struggled to believe these characters and their motives, and it just felt too engineered. Like the authors (there are two, writing under one pseudonym) took every Millennial stereotype or trope and tried to stuff them in.