Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

You want to know what’s in the water? It’s hollow loneliness. This book reminded me of another Reese’s book club find - The Lying Game. I didn’t like that book either. First of all, this book requires you to make huge leaps in a 3-month time frame. The escalation of the situation, in combination with the absurdity of Erin’s actions, are fairly ludicrous. I also wish that you didn’t know whose body Erin is burying in the first chapter. It gives the book a finality from just pages in because the reader becomes immediately aware that things go completely bad. I’m not sure what twists other commenters are discussing..there’s like 2 things that could be mildly unexpected. And the big ending scene left me cold, and really just sad. This book could have been so much more - if the dots had been connected more carefully; if there’d been more rhyme and reason. If you want to read about a character’s life getting turned completely upside down and left with emptiness - partly due to her own stupidity, partly due to others’ unexplained cruelty - then buy this book and have at it. Also be prepared for long droning bits peppered with fleeting elements of intrigue.