Megan Abbott has a strange skill of making words on a page seem like something much more - this entire book read like a fever-dream, a weird trance that you can't seem to look away from. With a gritty, hard-hitting story and deeply unreliable narrator that makes you question everything around you.

Deeply uncomfortable and dark, this story had plenty of thought-provoking and shocking moments, although there were points I was far too uncomfortable to continue - there was a lot of implied sexualisation, sometimes incestuous, of these young girls and questionable situations even in context of this disturbing novel.