Heather's review from Smut MattersSince this is a mystery, I'll do my best to be suitably vague and non-spoilery. 
 This story is told in three different POVs. Alex Dale is a journalist, writing a piece on vegetative states, specifically a local doctor who specializes in them. Amy Stephenson is one of those patients, a thirty-year old woman who has been locked in a vegetative state since an attack when she was fifteen. We don't know exactly how Jacob fits in when we first meet him, but we find out soon enough. 
 Alex is a full-blown alcoholic. She has schedules and rituals, and has just accepted this part of herself. She deals with it by setting rules. She puts her phone away so she won't send emails or texts. She puts her wallet away so she can't shop. She pairs each carefully measured glass of wine with an equally carefully measured tumbler of water to avoid dehydration. These parts were hard to read. Alex doing her grocery shopping and throwing a package of mattress protectors into her cart without even thinking about because she knew that she would urinate in her sleep was heartbreaking. She appears to be at rock bottom. Her alcoholism has cost her everything. That might have been the hardest part. It's cost her everything, and she knows it, but she still can't stop. This story she's writing on vegetative patients is absolutely her last chance to get even a little bit of her life and reputation back and she knows it. She remembers enough of Amy's story to make her interest plausible, though I wasn't really sure her career as a journalist would have given her quite as much access to Amy's medical information as it did. 
 They mystery itself was a little less exciting to me. The 'whodunnit' reveal wasn't all that shocking, at least in a general sense. There were several red herrings introduced, but for the most part they weren't viable candidates. 
 This was a debut novel, and while I really enjoyed it, there were a few times the author's relative newness came through. There were a few occasions when we shifted to a different time while in the same person's POV, and that wasn't really clear. It was a little disconcerting. However, Holly Seddon clearly did a lot of research into both the vegetative states and alcoholism. She states in an author's note that she took some liberties with Amy's condition, which isn't unusual. Books would be a lot more boring if authors weren't able to take some liberties. Some of the characters weren't as fleshed out as I'd have liked, (Jacob's wife Fiona is a fairly one-note, shrill, nagging wife) but overall, I thought this was a solid debut. I look forward to reading more from Holly Seddon.