Middle of the road for me. Interesting premise that went in an unexpected direction. The ending? Ummm. Hmm. ( )

I’m going to leave this as 3 stars, but I’m reeeealllly leaning towards 2. To say this was a let down is an understatement. So much about this book was supposed to be amazing for me— awesome true crime podcast premise, a missing woman mystery, a cool setting, THE COVER. But sadly, no.

Sera as a character just confused the hell out of me. She’s so blah that she basically stalks and tries to become this podcast girl, not out of malice, but literally because she can’t handle living a real life. You wound think listening to hours of true crime mysteries she would pick up some kind of insight or gameplan on how to go about investigating something— wrong! Sera just goes around making it super obvious that she thinks everyone did it- to their faces. Ummm, if one of them is the killer they’re going to kill your ass.

The ending: somehow rushed even though it took forever of nothing happening to get there. Also, just completely implausible and required too much suspending reality for me to be on board with it. I kind of knew where it was headed, so it wasn’t a surprise, but the way it went down was just ( )

Solid premise. Interesting narrator. Methodical clue-dropping. Then a final smidge of the book that went too quickly past too much and ended in a MEH way. Hey, at least there was an ending! ( )

3.5 rounded up. I enjoyed this, but it was a book club book and didn't quite hold up as well under scrutiny. ( )

so slow, you can tune out for chunks at a time and have no problem continuing. ho hum ( )