DNF @ Pg 187 
 Can I give it less than 1 star? Like maybe a 0.75 stars, and that is mainly just for the quotes at the beginning of each chapter. 
 "I used to only think about Journey when I was at school. My weekends were pretty much Journey-free. But suddenly, having to go two whole days without seeing him is making me itchy. I don't know why, but while I'm slicing vegetables for the salad I'm remembering how he chews his fingernails. As I set the table, I'm picturing him slam-dunking his trash. Journey never just throws something away; it's always a slam dunk. I don't even want to get started thinking about his eyes, or how popular he is. 
 It's only Saturday. How will I survive Sunday?" 
 YOU HAVE KNOWN HIM FOR APPROXIMATELY A WEEK. SEVEN DAYS AT THE MOST. 
 This book took me about ten days to read and I didn't even actually finish it. 
 I honestly don't have many good things to say about this, so I'm gonna make a list of all the things I didn't like. (It's a long list) 
 1. The insta-love in this is faster than a bullet train. Right off the bat, as soon as they meet, just instant romance. They have never met, barely know each other's names, but are still totally intimate and swoony. She was also weirdly obsessed with Journey before they met, who by the way, isn't really charming, just more moody. Can we move past insta-love already?? 
 2. I'm sorry, but I could NOT get over the fact that her best friend was called Spam. Couldn't do it. And then the love interest is named Journey. Like come on. 
 3. The best friends were nice big stereotypes, with Spam (SPAM!!) being the "quirky" and "nerdy" one with a weird name and an eccentric wardrobe. Lysa was a little better, but she was still the cliche "gorgeous and perfect" friend, cause you know one of them has to be beautiful and god forbid it's the main character. 
 4. The mystery was painfully easy to solve. As soon as we met the person, I knew it was them immediately, and as they gathered more "evidence", I couldn't fathom how no one else could see it. I did go to the end to see if I was right about the murderer the whole time, and I was. 
 5. Honestly they were all so dumb, and yet somehow they were still SOOOOOO much smarter than every adult in the general area. THERE IS NO DETECTIVE ANYWHERE THAT WOULDN'T DUST ALL POSSIBLE AREAS FOR FINGERPRINTS ON A VEHICLE. THEY WOULD DUST THE MIRRORS AND THE SEATS JUST IN CASE. AND THEY WOULDN'T HAND IT BACK OVER TO A SUSPECT LIKE A DAY LATER IN THE MIDDLE OF AN ONGOING INVESTIGATION. THEY KEPT HIS SHOES. BUT NOT HIS CAR THAT SOMEONE USED TO GET AWAY FROM THE CRIME SCENE. 
 6. This is more of a personal complaint, but all the reviews of this book talked about the inclusion of forensic science, and while it was there, it was really, really basic, and because I already know more than the main character seems to know about forensics, it didn't add anything to the book for me. I'm sure though, that if you have never taken specific forensic courses or don't know lots about the topic, that this will not be a problem for you. 
 7. My main question is; Can Erin get any dumber? Like girl, ANY OF THESE PEOPLE could be lying right to your face, and you wouldn't even notice because you're too busy making googley eyes at a boy whose favourite colour you don't even know. The romance was so unnecessary, annoying, and didn't seem real at all. I felt absolutely no chemistry between the two of them, and the insta-love just made that worse. 
 8. My biggest complaint is that this book was extremely rushed, and yet we went nowhere in the about 60% I read. That shouldn't be possible. It shouldn't feel rushed, and yet get us no closer to anything useful. 
 9. These characters are stereotypes, but somehow, or maybe because of that, still really cardboard feeling. They're just impossible to connect with because nothing about what they're saying or doing is organic. The characters don't really feel like real people and you're supposed to feel sympathy for Erin and maybe even Journey, but I couldn't get over their eye-roll worthy romance or the general stupidity. 
 10. Points to Lysa and Spam for being mad at Erin for getting so distracted by Journey, as Erin says time and time again that they have better things to do than flirt, but continues to do it anyway. Yet this anger vanished every chapter and was brought back up only when convenient. 
 11. I appreciate the human reaction to murder, and Erin does get better as it goes, but I found her really soggy for the first little bit. It's safe to say that I did not like Erin in the slightest, nor did I particularly like any of the other characters. 
 12. This is such a big instance of telling rather than showing that it is actually almost painful. We are TOLD that Erin and Journey have great chemistry, that Spam is a brilliant hacker, that Miss P meant a lot to all of them, but we're never shown any of these things. 
 13. This book was honestly just really boring. It was a rushed book about murder, but I struggled to feel engaged, and I couldn't really find any plot happening; just a lot of arguing and swooning, with a little forensics here and there to make sure it still qualified as a mystery. 
 (view spoiler)[(If you have one single character who is suspicious compared to literally all of the other characters the MC trusts, your murderer is to obvious and I'm bored) (hide spoiler)] 
 All in All, I was really looking forward to this book, one as a lover of mystery books, and two as a lover of forensic science, and I was extremely disappointed on both ends.