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“The name Rachel Price is almost synonymous with mystery. Because her disappearance was like a puzzle, and it’s human nature to want to solve a puzzle, don’t you think?��

how I felt while reading this book:🕵️‍♀�� how I felt after: 🤡

holly jackson, please put ash and bel in a romance novel, I beg you

I have a lot of thoughts on this one but I’ll try and keep it short; expectations were really high and honestly the book was predictable and could’ve been better in some areas but overall, I enjoyed reading this and I had so much fun I couldn’t put it down!!

𓍢ִ�� ˖ bel price - I didn’t really like bel to be honest, she was so mean to everyone (ESPECIALLY RACHEL?!?!) around her for no reason and would say such cruel things to people who never did a single thing to deserve it and overall she was just unlikeable. I get her reasoning for it since throughout the whole book she’d say she would push people away before they had the chance to leave her but her way of doing that was just not it�� I’m glad she got character development at the very end but then again that was AT THE VERY END so she wasn’t really a joy to read about in this book.

𓍢ִ�� ˖ ash maddox - I LOVED ASH AND HIS AWKWARDNESS AND HIS FUNNY CLOTHING!! I wish we got more of him because there wasn’t nearly enough he was one of the best characters and his moments in the book were amazing but NOT ENOUGH!

𓍢ִ�� ˖ ash and bel - I loved them I did, the moments they had together were cute, but�� I feel like they weren’t fully developed, ash not being in the book much is a reason for it and I just felt like they needed MORE! Their open ending as me conflicted because I don’t know how to feel about it, it just feels like their story ended as soon as it started and I wish we could’ve seen more of them together!!

SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!

I guessed the grandfathers involvement in the mystery from the very beginning, the signs were just so clear and obvious�� I didn’t suspect charlie until bel started suspecting him and that one was a bit of a shocker to me. I also knew there was something going on with carter but I never would’ve guessed it was what it was. Overall, this was a bit predictable and I was just expecting something bigger!

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𓍢ִ໋˖�� pre-read ⊹�� �� - buddy read with lulu sooo excited to start this I can’t wait for holly jacksons mysteries and twists 🤭