** spoiler alert ** 
 1 star for the LGBTQ element 
 1 star for the different ethnicities of the characters. 
 But that's pretty much it with this book.. No real depth, no real emotion, at least not enough to make me feel anything - and I'm usually a very emotional reader, I cry at the weirdest stuff sometimes. A book like this should've made me burst into tears. One of my biggest issues was, that I didn't understand Tyler. I get it, why would I understand a murderer? I feel like, if Nijkamp had gotten Tyler to narrate just some part of the story, it would've made a big difference.