Since I saw the cover first, I thought it was going to be an interesting story before I even read the synopsis. You know that saying "Don't judge a book by it's cover", well I did with this one and I found that I really liked it a lot. The whole premise of it was sort of unique and that made it a good contemporary thriller and suspense book. 
 I have read Melissa Marr's other series so when I learned that this was going to be in a whole other direction, I was a little skeptical about it but decided to give Melissa Marr a chance and dove right into this book as soon as it came out. Let me just say that I totally loved it. The characters were well written, the setting, the way us teenagers act in high school was very well written, and the whole overall story was very detailed. 
 I have a thing for childhood friends who end up liking each other and ending up with each other so you can probably guess that I enjoyed this book quite a lot. At first I didn't like the fact that she was pining for Nate, her ex childhood best friend while she was still in a relationship with Robert, but then things started happening and I found myself cheering and squealing at all the Eva/Nate moments that happened. 
 The ending seemed a little rushed to me, like the author didn't quite know how to write it down a certain way. It seemed like Eva's actions were more on impulse like the author wrote it down first and then quickly added some details before jumping to the last chapter and ending the story. Apart from that, it was a good story and I actually liked the suspense and thriller that Melissa Marr wrote, it literally had me guessing and while I admit it was sort of obvious, at least for me: I sort of figured out who the killer was near the 54% mark, it was still well thought out and enjoyable. On the other hand, Judge/the killer preaching all the time in his POV and talking about religion and stuff sort of put me off and I seriously debated on dropping the story when I first noticed that there was going to be a lot of religion being shoved down our throat but as I kept reading, I realized that the author eased up on this matter and also it explained how unstable Judge/the Killer really was. 
 I definitely will be looking forward to more books by Melissa Marr. She has proven that she can do different genres and I expect good things from her.