Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the early copy of this book! All opinions are my own.
There was a really interesting story here, and at times it started to shine through, but so much of this book was a bit of a struggle for me to get through.
Most of the characters were a bit flat, and there were a few who each mainly served to accuse a single person of Erin’s murder, and do nothing but work to double down on only their one person they were focused on accusing or exonerating. It felt less like any of them wanted to solve Erin’s murder because of Erin and much more like they each just wanted to prove their own theory correct. When Nasim and Mikky weren’t having the same argument over and over and over, they were cute, but so much of their relationship was spent having the same argument. While I found Kayla’s POV to be often-frustrating. she seemed to be the one character who cared about Erin for Erin instead of the fame to be gotten by being associated with Erin’s name.
By the time the reveal came at the end, I was just ready for the book to be over, which is unfortunate given that there is so little progress on solving the mystery for the first half of the book. There’s also an additional mystery introduced about 3/4 of the way through the book that just goes entirely unresolved. Maybe it was left like that to leave the door open for a sequel, but if there is a sequel, I don’t see myself picking it up.