★★★☆☆

This one took me a while to get into. The first half felt slow and disjointed, like I was reading two completely separate stories and waiting for the threads to finally tie together. I will give it credit for tackling postpartum depression and psychosis—that’s not something you see explored in a lot of thrillers. But let’s be real: if this character hadn’t been rich, she would’ve been arrested. No question.

And somehow the whole town managed to keep a life-altering secret from her for nine years? That stretched believability a bit far, even for me. By the time the ending rolled around, I found myself blinking at the page thinking, Really? That’s where we’re leaving this? It wasn’t bad exactly, just… odd.

Glad I finished it, but I won’t be racing to revisit it.