Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I'm not done yet. I'm 80% there, but I'm struggling, like really, really struggling. First thought--don't read this if you work in the legal field. I work in criminal defense in the state of Virginia (also where the book's trial is set) and if you want an author who fact checks their work to make sure at least some major details are accurate, she isn't the one. I don't generally read synopsis of books carefully, which is my fault, but when I started reading this I didn't have a clue it was set in Virginia. The author calls the prosecutors District Attorneys, which we don't have in VA, we have Commonwealth's Attorneys, as this is a Commonwealth. She also says People of the State of Virginia v. whomever. That would never be a case caption in Virginia. Adam, the man on trial for "double homicide" in the book is arrested and held without formally being charged for multiple days. Then upon what should just be his arraignment, which is where he should receive an attorney, he's made to enter a plea--EVEN THOUGH THE INVESTIGATION ISN'T EVEN FINISHED. And his attorney is his wife. That would literally NEVER happen. She further says that his trial for DOUBLE HOMICIDE will be in two weeks. He wasn't direct indicted, he didn't go through General District Court, but yet he's about to be on trial in two weeks for double homicide. Ha. It's absurd. It takes at LEAST two years to get to this point. I'm sorry I'm screaming, but I was literally cackling trying to get past all these dumb, completely unrealistic pieces of the novel. Second thought--the author says random things but doesn't follow up. Like at one point in the novel, the main character Sarah says she has sex with a strange man who came into her room and that was that. Granted, it may come back later but it was literally as matter of fact as I just stated it. It was so out of left field. The writing is mediocre at best. The story is so far fetched. I'll continue and complete because I'm hoping there's a reason this book has so many great reviews, but I'm not holding my breath. There has to be a reason, right? That's the main "mystery" for me while reading this. Not who committed the murder, but what book all these people read to come to the conclusion that it deserves an overall rating of 4.07 on Goodreads. Update--I finished it. Still awful. So, so bad. There was no character development. I hated every single character. The "plot twists" were idiotic. There were red herrings that were so stupid. The foreshadowing was nothing of the sort. At one point, it alluded to the main character being pregnant, but went nowhere. All of it went nowhere and was so far-fetched that none of it was even remotely believable.