It's a decent read overall.

The entire book true to the description on the back, and quite literally follows our main character Grace Reinhart Sachs as she navigates her life after the murder of Malaga Alves, her husband's disappearance and the growing police suspicion against her husband.

The story takes place in New York. Grace is a successful couples therapist, her husband is an oncologist for children, her son is a talented young boy who attends the school she attended.

I think I'd like to split this book into two parts, before Grace runs away from New York and after.

The first part, was utterly insufferable to read. The not so subtle body shaming, classist remarks, the way in which Grace oddly keeps her husband in this bubble where he is exempt from criticism and how she constantly talks about "what a good man he is" just weirded me out. Moreover she always held him to this standard of him being such a good person, who just simply felt too much, cared too much that no one would understand him, all these people around her were simply far too self-centered to even understand what it was like for her husband.

And I did notice this odd habit of Grace sometimes going so off topic from what was currently happening, and these tangents were not just a sentence or two, but rather spanning entire paragraphs.

Grace even had a best friend Vita who suddenly stopped being present in her life after she got married to her husband, and oddly Grace never questioned it? Never tried to reach out and hold onto that connection, she just simply accepted it and went on with her life. That was odd to me.

The entire way in which Grace talked about how amazing women essentially could stop their lives from falling into ruin by simply "not choosing the wrong partner" was absurd to me. But I did relate and agree to some of what she said such as "Pick the wrong person and it doesn't work no matter how much you want to fix your marriage. It won't work" and "If a woman chose the wrong person, he was always going to be the wrong person, that was all". But overall, she just came across as entitled, self-righteous, and someone who thought she was too smart to essentially "choose the wrong person".

There's even brief mention of some potential falling out with an acquaintance of hers, named Tracy that never really gets explored in the book at all.

But after Grace leaves New York in an attempt to keep both her son and herself safe is when things really start to speed up in the book.

Once they're away from the chaos unfolding back home, is when Grace actually starts to really doubt her husband, and think about the person she thought she knew and the person he really was.

I really loved the part in the book where Grace's father, who she always had a close yet amicable relationship with arrives at the house she's staying in, and brings a bunch of groceries, ready made food and for the first time in probably forever they truly talk. They sit down, and have this beautiful father-daughter moment after which both Grace and her father realize that they both misunderstood each other more than they assumed. I think out of all the scenes in this book, this was the most beautiful one.

I think after this point is when the book truly takes off.

Though I am sort of disappointed at how fast paced the entire "solving of the murder" part was. It was so rushed and probably was such a little part of the book, I didn't know how to feel about it. But then again, maybe it's because I tend to read books where the main focus is on how the murder is solved, and not how the wife of the alleged murder deals with what happens post murder.

I personally felt like there were a lot of unexplained things specifically with regards to the specificities of the murder, some of the character's backstories and some of the events that took place. And this kind of makes me feel like this book isn't complete yet? If you get what I mean.

However, I am glad i didn't DNF this book. I never DNF my books, yes some of them may be infuriating and make me want to DNF them, but my mother did not raise me to be a quitter.