lindseydahling's reviews
858 reviews

A bit predictable, but engaging AF. Normally my brain has a hard time grasping alternate reality storylines, but this one didn’t lose me. Chalking this up to the book being good, as I think I’m well past personal character development in that area.

I can say that my husband was up until 4am the night he started reading this. I know this because at said 4am, he woke me up, said he was happy he married me, kissed me, then told me to go back to sleep, all without explanation. 

And honestly, I’m a gem, so he better be fucking happy.



Also, I listened to the audiobook. Reader did a great job. It did make me chuckle a bit every time he read dialogue from the POV of other characters. Not sure why all these Chicagoans sound like Canadians, but I rolled with it.

You know when writing tries too hard? That’s where we are here. 

I should’ve known when it described a droplet falling from a crying client’s tear duct that this writing wasn’t going to work for me, but I thought maybe it would calm down. Lololol no.

I’m also terrible at guessing the ending of books, but I had this one figured out within the first 50 pages. 

So, there we have it. A predictable plot with a lot of douchey flowery writing.

I think I would’ve liked this more had I eyeball read the entire thing. I listened to the audiobook for the first half, hated it, was convinced I was going to jump ship, decided to give it one more chance, checked the ebook out on Libby, and eyeball read the rest. The book improved IMMENSELY when I made the switch.

It was going to be a maximum 2-star read when I was on the audiobook route. When I moved to the ebook, it turned to a 4-star experience.

Really makes it impossible to review the thing, though. For example, I was prepared to bitch about the long, pointless conversations during the first half, but then actually enjoyed them in the second half. Could’ve been because of the audiobook. Could’ve been because the second half was legitimately better. I DON’T KNOW WHAT’S REAL AND NOT REAL HERE.

I’m late to the party on this book, so all I have to add is that I highly, HIGHLY recommend listening to the audiobook rather than eyeball reading it.

The thing is a mindfuck, and the audiobook production makes it feel that much more real. 

Also, for the animal lover readers—both the cat and the dog survive the book. Neither of them are harmed or in danger in any way in any part of the book. Did I worry about this the entire time? Sure did. I really need authors to start adding *ALL ANIMALS ARE FINE AND LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER* at the beginning of their books. Someone bring this up at the next meeting. Thank you. Byeeeee.

Let me start by saying this is probably the best audiobook production I’ve ever listened to. The main character, Lucy, is suspected of killing her bff. Most of the chapters are in her POV. However, some are from the POV of Ben, a podcaster, and those were like listening to an old timey radio show. The podcast chapters had intro and outro music, interviews that sounded like actual real-life interviews, and sound effects (like foot shuffling when the interviewee suddenly got up to leave the room). It was awesome. A++++

As for the story, it definitely held my attention. It’s kind of a large cast of characters along with twists and turns, so it keeps you on your toes. I’m terrible at guessing the endings of mysteries, so I’m not one to ask if it was predictable or not.