The breakdown of the rating is as follows:
- Two stars for readability—this book is SUPER EASY to read I practically breezed though the pages
- One star for including a playing ground quite rare I hadn't found one before this: buying a house

However, I think it's very important to note that readability does not automatically mean the content is equally good. Because I don't think so. The main problem is, I think, that this book tries too hard to be that hmmm I'm twistyyyyy tale that everything, at the end of the day, just falls apart to me. The following sentence(s) is gonna be a spoiler, but I am not censoring it: the way the author makes Peter, a ten-year-old kid, the mastermind of everything is just not cutting it. It cheapens everything I've read up to that point. I swear to god, not everything has to be The Omen or Turn of the Key, or whatever that goes It was the child after all. It goes stale FAST.

(Still spoiler)

And it is SO WEIRD how Millie, the protagonist, always stresses that she cannot lose her children (or whatever bullshit she tells herself) so she couldn't do anything about Peter (her younger kid) being mini–Ted Bundy BUTTTTTTTTTT when Peter ends up murdering his father (which of course also happens to be Millie's husband) when he's a teenager, Meddie (her older kid) decides to leave home. Like.... YOUR DAUGHTER IS RUNNING AWAY FROM YOU BECAUSE YOU CHOOSES TO STAY WITH HER FATHER'S MURDERER, MILLIE. HAVE SOME BRAIN. HOW IS THAT NOT "LOSING A CHILD"??? It's just so much nonsense that at the last page I can only say that this book, no matter how much interesting and readable it is when I started reading, ends disappointingly.

Such a shame.
And I did have fun for around the 60% chunk of the book.