There are so many players it's hard to keep track of them all, I mean there are at least 5 male names that start with B seems like we could have avoided that confusion pretty easily.
The cops use their last names and first names interchangeably, sometimes in the same paragraph. Just when I think I know who we're talking about they throw in a new name. I said out lout "Who's Paul?" "Who's Greg" ect, more times than I can count. It's unnecessarily confusing. For the reader's sake, sticking to one name probably would have been better.

You're thrown into this world with all these people talking about all these things happening. You only even hear about the back story to the others 30% into the book, that's a long time to be confused.

I kind of wondered if this was a YA story because it appears the villains and the heroes (who you never really know their ages, just that they're probably high schoolers) are more the focus than the cops doin their jobs.

The book doesn't really have a main character, the story flies all over the place. Including the intimate lives of the teenagers which doesn't even remotely touch on the plot or mean anything to any of the story or character development.

The author/stalker portion of the story felt like a convoluted sidequest, it may have been dotting T's and crossing i's from a previous book, but I don't know 'cause I wasn't aware I needed to read the others first.

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The ending was anti climactic AF.
You don't know what Soraya's motivation was, why she needed to know SO BADLY what happened
You don't find out why Kerns suddenly needed to take over and take out all the teens.
Are THESE addressed in other books?? I Don't know!

I'm left utterly confused.
I gave the story a 2.5 because the ideas were all there, the execution was just confusing and meh

Love the paced of it it's a really nice mystery thriller with alot of crime scene but having alot of characters involving in a oneplay well nicely written and organised