Wait, where exactly was the twist? Hawkins cheats by using cheap tricks (the unreliable narrator is... an alcoholic--womp womp) to tell a predictable, boring, poorly-written story. The whole time I was hoping that (view spoiler)[Tom was not the murderer and that he did not have an affair with Megan (hide spoiler)]--I was praying for a less obvious, less neat solution. The going back and forth was confusing because the dates were so close together (maybe I just didn't care enough to keep a calendar in my head.) The writing was so uninspiring. The murderer explains EVERYTHING--why h/she did it, what exactly happened, so there is no mystery there. And the explanation is boring. The fact that people are comparing this book to GONE GIRL does this book a disservice. The two are apples and oranges. But if you want to get real, GONE GIRL was better.