In the same vein of Gone Girl....um, no. Not at all really. The main characters are almost perfect, way too normal human beings so that's a major difference than Gillian Flynn's protags. There are some bratty teenagers in here I guess. This reads like a shock novel for parents of teenage girls in a fake TV-school world. The whole Ben storyline is jibberish. So much useless extra threads in here. What about the cop who left the case?, just dropped.