RaveBookOxygen\"The book seamlessly flips between past and present, taking readers to Gilda’s childhood and youth, and a portrait of a quirky, highly intelligent, introspective young woman emerges, one who is clearly an outlier in her nuclear family. Austin succeeds in keeping the reader highly engaged, to discover who killed Grace and also how things will end up with Gilda. Her debut blends mystery and in-depth character examination, and just as it starts to feel a bit too intense, when we are thrust into the psyche of the neurotic central character, she defuses it with just the right amount of wit and black humor. The combination makes the book a page turner and marks Austin as a stellar storyteller.
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