You know the book was really working for me up until the ending. I I just think that Stewart didn't know how to end it and I found the ending to be totally implausible.

Full review: Well that was a lot of nothing. I think Stewart wanted to do a coming of age story and instead of doing that, just tried to toss into a murder mystery that didn't really work when you peered at it too closely. I also think most of the characters were kind of awful outside of Jessi. The main character, Nicole (but goes by Nicola...do not ask) is just terrible. I don't even think she gets how awful she is throughout the book and Stewart leaves the character hanging at the end and moves towards chapters of another character that I really wish she had cut out of the book. It just does not work and it leaves more questions than answers.

The flow of the book was fine, but the plot of Nicola returning to her small town in VA trying to figure out if her long missing friend is dead and who killed her was not the central premise really. The main plot is her trying on her friend's life and really only liking (if you can say that) the husband she left behind but loathing everything else. And I have to say that most of the book was like that. I don't know if I was supposed to like Nicola (I did not) but her motivations for doing things did not ring true. And I think that's honestly because Stewart was trying for a coming of age and murder mystery that didn't really work.