My first audiobook since high school and if we're rating it on that alone, I'd rank this a solid 4/5 stars. The narrators really did a great job in making voices but not be too obtuse about the fellow characters they were conversing with. It made the story much more tense and colorful, and really pulled up my rating.

On the side of the story, I do understand its popularity as well as the hype around it. As a hoodunit, it has that gripping thrill of dangling the answer right in front of you and then taking it away. Whoever, some parts of the execution makes me feel off about it, namely that of the fluidity between the conversations — honestly just how the characters spoke as a whole.

The therapy speak and the elaborate conversations (especially in Alicia's diary entries) were entertaining until they became a bit much. I guess you can justify it as the reader delving further into Theo's mind and his skewed version of things instead of the actual, objective truth that he so touts. That being said, I was suspicious about him from the beginning so when the POVs started falling together, the twist made sense. I do commend the narrators for their delivery, because it made the revelation much more dramatic.

This edition of the audiobook had an interview of the author at the end and his answers actually made sense with some of the choices made in the book. That is to say, he put a lot of himself into the book than he thought and it muddled my experience of it.