Instead, Eileen Cook spent ~300 pages building up suspense and introducing all these new twisty plot lines… only to throw them away at the end, as well as completely go back on her entire characterization of a certain character. I was expecting something elaborate, something dark, something shocking, something that would cause all the pieces to fall effortlessly into place. Since this is a spoiler-free review, I’m not going to give away the ending, but I was pretty disappointed. I was absolutely ready to give this book 4 stars up until the last two chapters.

Hmm… I didn’t have insanely high expectations for this book, solely judging off its Goodreads rating, but I had heard some good things about it on booktube and in reviews. There was no one in the world Jill trusted more.Īs new developments complicate the story, it becomes clear that the one question everyone’s trying to answer could reveal a truth no one expected: what really happened that night? They were best friends for almost their entire lives. “ They painted me as if I was this crazy loser who finally snapped after years of having a prettier, smarter, sexier best friend and decided to take us both out.“īut Jill knows she would never hurt Simone she could never hurt Simone. Her best friend, Simone, didn’t survive.Īnd according to the Italian authorities, it might have been something more sinister than a senseless tragedy.īecause an eyewitness saw Jill drive that car over the cliff, and now she’s being investigated for murder. When 18-year-old Jill Charron wakes up in a hospital bed with a traumatic brain injury and a 6-week-long blank in her memory, she finds out that she was in a car accident while on a school trip to Italy.

That moment when you use the same picture that’s on the cover of the bookįavorite quote: “we can still be good people, even if we don’t say or do good things all the time.”

The almost truth eileen cook