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2.25⭐
• This could‘ve been slightly better, without Willa‘s POV. Well, maybe. Her point of view felt like it only served to confuse me. Plus, I didn‘t like her. Mary was a little too insipid for me to even care about her. I‘m left feeling underwhelmed with the story, overall.
•Not even my fav narrator, Karissa Vacker, could save this…Reba Buhr gave a confusing performance which wasn‘t her fault.

I believe I happened across this book in a email from the publisher and boy am I glad! This book sounded so good and I knew I needed to read it. This book was full of twists and turns and just when I thought it was over it wasn‘t. I read this book in less than a day because I couldn‘t put it down!

This thriller certainly captures attention from the start— from a red prologue to Mary, stumbling across the friend who ghosted her but answering to a new name and with a new family. Mary prepares for life as a single mother, outside the toxic but luxurious lifestyle of her husband‘s family. But the mystery of Willa & the pressure of her divorce leads to murder! Engaging but a bit heavy-handed & contradictory with the anti-wealth theme throughout!

I felt this started out strong but as it progressed it sort of lost its way. Told in both non-linear &multiple POV, we are brought into Mary‘s life as she fights w/her soon 2 be ex for custody of her son. When he is suddenly murdered &an old friend, Willa, reappears, she gets suspicious. Mary isn‘t the strongest character, but Willa is a good unreliable source. However, character development &plot could have used some shoring up &strengthening.