I had a hard time with this book. It was written from the point of view of someone struggling with mental illness and it tended to make me feel a bit mentally ill as well. Also, the plot lines are contrived to keep the ending a mystery and I didn't really appreciate that. It was a bit like "I see dead people" and since I had an inkling about the "twist" at the end, it wasn't really worth all the back-and-forth. I read it for a book club otherwise I might not have finished reading it. I also got it through Kindle Unlimited so I didn't have to pay for it, another good thing.
I didn't know a single thing about the book ahead of time, which was good. I jumped right in without any warning and I think that helped. On the other hand, I could tell that there must be a reason the author kept manipulating the timeline and that brought me out of the story a lot. It is also a pretty bleak sort of place where this takes place, a sort of parallel world and it was HEAVY on my heart to dwell there. There was an impossible happy ending, but it felt a bit too tacked on for me to feel as if the ending redeemed the dark journey it took to get there.
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