Progressively shorter chapters will elevate page-flipping readers’ heart rate as the past inches closer to the present and Luna’s characters contend with mounting danger ... Luna expertly keeps her cards close to her chest until nearly the nerve-wracking end of this engrossing, twisty character study of a complicated woman.
A few notches grislier than your garden-variety thriller-with-multiple-twists, this novel alleviates some of that gore by being chock-full of cleverly leveraged cultural references ... [A] page-turning, twisted thriller.
Luna relays the bulk of the tale in Caroline’s snarky first-person, present-tense narration... which successfully distracts from the plot’s preponderance of coincidences. Chapters that check in on Ellen, who’s been taken captive, and flash back to Caroline’s childhood, casting doubt on her candor, ramp up the tension.
