I received this in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley. Thank you to the author, Megan Miranda, and the publisher, Simon & Schuster, for this opportunity. 
 Nicolette Farrell thought she had escaped her rural upbringing, and the secrets buried in her past, when she escaped from her small-town home and in to the big city. Her father's worsening dementia and the seeming resurfacing of the past soon bring her back, however. Reunited with a complicated brother and a childhood sweetheart it starts to feel like she never left, especially after the recent disappearance of a young girl, which bares a startling similarity to the disappearance of Nicolette's best friend, all those years ago... 
 I loved how gritty and twisting this narrative was. The reader never felt like they could approach any angle of this story on steady footing, as the basis of our understanding was ever shifting. With so many thrillers on the market, this constantly delivered something exciting and new for the reader to obsess over and sink into. 
 The non-chronological time-scale was part of the story as much as the events were, and was what dually distanced me from the story and yet what pulled me in and made me want to know more. My only problem with this is that it took me some time to realise that the time wasn't actually linear. I felt constantly confused and like I had missed some key information in the text. If I had realised that this was a narrative told backwards, this wouldn't have been the case, however. The ending was fast-paced and unguessable but, perhaps because of the shifting time-scale, I felt the events suddenly transgressed too quickly for me to fully comprehend. 
 I preferred the sections set in the past, as opposed to those set in the book's present, and would have favoured a larger portion of the book to dwell on the characters as they were in their youth. This, I believe would have garnered a greater understanding for the people they became, without having to spend an equally as long time viewing them as their future selves. 
 This is a unique and well-done thriller, which I did enjoy and did suck me into the tale. I didn't fully love all segments of this but it is a story I would recommend and am glad I have read.