This was one of those books that I loved to hate as I read it. 
 For one thing, it was just a little bit gratuitous with describing the bodies of the women targeted by the killer. These descriptions felt repetitive and a little over the top for my taste - one description of a face peeled off is enough for me. I imagine the author was trying for the "shock factor" but really it just came across as grotesque and unnecessary. 
 The part that had me rolling my eyes the most was (of course) the love-triangle plot line. It was unoriginal and clumsy and the opposite of compelling. I was neither Team Michael nor Team Dean. Or Team Cassie for that matter. She was annoying. All of the characters were annoying. 
 The chapters from the killer's perspective were bizarre (not in a good way). Disclaimer: this may be due to the audiobook narrator, who put on this breathy whisper voice whenever the killer was talking and I just couldn't take it. The big reveal of the killer was the only thing that I thought was well done. While the person was certainly a suspect, they also weren't super-obvious. Nothing is worse than a super-obvious killer in a murder mystery! 
 Other than that though, this book was a fail for me. I'll be giving this series the Twilight treatment: read the first one to see what it's all about, then Wikipedia the rest to find out what happens without having to slog through more crap. That being said - I could see some teens loving it. My displeasure won't stop me from recommending it to someone looking for a creepy murder mystery.