I was hooked because the twists kept on coming and I never expected them. The reason this book was a 3 star for me was because I was a bit turned off by Simone because she is so naive and gullibale. You're telling me for a decade she was content with life and believing her dad killed her mom yet seeing her handsome childhood neighbour and a nosy reporter all of a sudden sparked a "maybe my dad isn't guilty?" I also don't think her age really WORKED for the premise- she's 23 and doesn't have a lot of life experience and is living like a 70 year old lady. I think if she was a bit older it would've made her a bit more wary of life and added more substance.

While this was an enjoyable read with just enough of a twist (from a different direction than I expected, which is a nice touch), the MC had some...issues. She's inconsistent in a way that's difficult to pinpoint - I guess in terms of her ability to interpret the world around her?

Simone was born into a life of privilege, but that all changed when her mother was murdered and her father was convicted of the crime. The next few years of Simone’s life were a matter of simple survival; now an adult, she leads a quiet life as a book reviewer. When a true crime podcaster begins to hound her and she learns that Hunter, the boy she grew up next door has some scandalous secrets about her mother and his father, Simone gets the feeling that the stories she’s been told about her parents have been lies. Determined to find out the truth, she will stop at nothing until she finds out what really happened to her mother. A solid entry in the domestic thriller genre, this book doesn’t offer a lot of surprises but has good character development and an interesting plot