I ended up skimming the majority of this story. The main character lost her brothers in an accident when they were kids when they all fell through an iced-over lake. The story is essentially how the surviving sister has completely disowned her family, and pretends she was an only child, because she doesn’t want to deal with what happened. With all the drama that is her thinking and emotions I really thought the details of what happened that night would’ve been more horrific, but I honestly just couldn’t help but feel like this was the most selfish and self-absorbed character ever. Acting like she was the only one that lost something that night and refusing to deal with it. And we aren’t talking like a year later, we’re talking over a decade. Seriously, grow the eff up.

I received this via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

good read i definitely recommend you purchase this book. You won't want to put the book down

This is the first book I read in 2017. I had a serious time liking Best Lightburn. She was so negative and selfish. Blades does an amazing job of crafting flawed characters that will rub the reader the wrong way and yet in her masterful way Blades engages the reader so much that I needed to see this take through to the end. It is a great read with vivid descriptions and snarky laugh out loud characters.

This is an interesting novel of dealing with your past even as you want to push it back down. Best is an intriguing and interesting character. I do think this would have benefited from a strong detached editor to pull it apart a bit and straighten some of it out. There's a lot going on, which is how life works but some of it felt distracting to the main plot. Thanks to Netgalley for the ARC- I'd like to read more from Blades, who captured my imagination with this novel.

Talk about dealing with survivor's guilt. What an interesting storyline that you aren't sure about until you are halfway through the book. I could not imagine being the lone survivor in a complete accident that resulted in the death of my two brothers. Best learns the difficulties in trying to keep the past a secret. Eventually, everything will come out. The author wrote in a fashion that wanted you to keep reading to find out the next twist would be.