The It Girl

PLOT TWISTS GO CRAAAZY. A girl’s friend gets killed and like 10 years later she finds out that the killer is actually innocent, and the real killer might be somebody who is actually close to her. Book structure is simple switching between before and after the murder. Near the end gets SO good, you know like when you rip through the book bc so many things are happening back to back and so many things are getting revealed and you’re just like OHMYG...read more

I wanted to like this book. I slogged my through it. But just didn’t love it. The central character, It Girl April, was really only a side character. While the character with the primary perspective, Hannah, just wasn’t that interesting. She was tentative, neurotic and boring. I really don’t see why April liked her so much. Or why her husband, Will, put up with her. I loved all the other characters -just not the self-doubting, angst-ridden Hannah...read more

Kept me guessing.

I couldn’t put this book down! It blended dark academia with a juicy murder mystery, both of which are my jam. I loved the atmosphere that that writer created with the school. The description actually made me think of Yale, which I visited a long time ago, and I could see it clearly in my mind’s eye. I also really liked all the side characters, especially all the friends in the group. I found them all very different with separate and individual p...read more

Twisty turns surrounding a college death, before and after. April was the IT girl at her college in Oxford, until she was killed. Her roommate Hannah and close friends Will, Emily, Hugh and Ryan are bereft at her death. And we see the events leading up to the death, paired with the lives of Hannah and Will, who have married and 10 years later are expecting their first child. There is something about April's death that has never felt completel...read more