I can definitely see a lot of people loving this book. Sally is a character that is really easy to root for and it's great to see how she grows over the course of the book. At the same time, the dual timeline covering the truth in her past scratches the true crime itch so well that I expect it's being optioned for a screen adaptation. 

But I didn't love it, and it's hard to figure out exactly why. Objectively, it's interesting to see the different ways trauma can shape lives and showing the importance of having a supportive community to help people out. I think it does a good job with that. It's also darkly fascinating to see the perspective of twisted minds and consider the way they reason things out to themselves. It's a very dark story with some very graphic and disturbing scenes that didn't feel excessive given the context. The writing wasn't bad and the audiobook production was good. The truth is I just didn't care all that much by the end. Sorry!