This was a bit of fun. I flew through it and really loved the way it had short chapters and flip flopped between podcast episodes and what was currently happening. I helped give a lot of perspective so we didn’t get stuck in Lucy’s mind the whole time.

Lucy as a character was hilarious, she was snarky and sassy and I found myself laughing or being amused multiple times throughout. 

I really loved Lucy’s grandma, what a bloody woman. 

Ben was actually very well written and I liked the amount of nuance he had when it came to who to believe when he found out new information. 

I didn’t think it was particularly suspenseful or mysterious, I would call this a beach read rather than a thriller even though it deals with murder and domestic violence (which sounds very strange!) it just didn’t take itself seriously at all I found? Lots of the time we were spent with Lucy trying to remember what happened which isn’t necessarily very riveting (and she also makes many silly decisions along the way and seems kinda like she just says yolo to everything haha) which took away from what might have been mysterious. 

I do appreciate that it really delved into people and men not believing woman and what that means for a society as a whole, and what makes something self defence especially in terms of domestic abuse (fighting back) and violent men who are angry they got rejected (also fighting back) there was a depth as well as a lightness but it wasn’t mysterious. I wasn’t flipping pages to find out what happened I was flipping pages cos I was thoroughly enjoying being inside this small town with lots of unreliable people.