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Rating: 4/5
Pages: 336
Started: June 13
Finished: June 18
Summary:
Jessica Miller is finally someone--the youngest ever woman at her prestigious consulting firm, confident and in control over her life, no longer in need of her friends, the East House Seven, to define her identity--and homecoming at Duquette University is the perfect opportunity to show her former college friends exactly what she's achieved. What she does not expect is for the event to be a shrine to that fateful night during her Senior year when her roommate Heather was stabbed to death. When Eric, Heather's younger brother, brings the the East House Seven back together with the accusation that one of them must have killed Heather, old tensions quickly rise to the surface, casting into doubt everything Jessica remembers about that awful night.
Thoughts:
I really liked this book. Jessica was not a likeble protagonist, which I found very fun for a murder mystery. She was very relatable, a perfectionist obsessed with proving her worth, but lots of her thought processes were very messed up and I quite enjoyed that. The way that suspicion was subtly cast onto her, then taken away, then re-cast was also clever. The foreshadowing was a bit too obvious for my taste, since it was so present from the beginning (Jessica never protested her innocence once, which made it hard to be surprised when she was accused) but it was still a fun element. The layers of romance were pretty good, even if I was wildly disappointed by the fact that Caro didn't confess her love for Jess; she had the perfect set-up and it was just missed. This was a really compelling read, though, with compelling scenes and distinct narration, and I highly recommend this to female thriller-lovers and fans of Gillian Flynn and Donna Tartt.