This book was a big disappointment for me. Once again i was looking for a thriller and read this book. It is about a con artist that pretends to be a rich kid that disappeared. The book was inspired by something that actually happened. A kid went missing and years later a guy pretended to be him.

I’ll start with the things that i liked.

I liked the family Dynamic. Everyone is so flawed and feels like a actual person. I liked how they appear as a good family but as you get to know them everybody has there secrets.

The unreliable narrator was done pretty well. I was getting worried when i first started the book that it would get annoying but for the most part it was done well. He even tells you that he’s unreliable and he only lies in the beginning and end.

Now for the things that i didn’t like

Most of the book it doesn’t feel like a thriller. It was just the main character (we don’t get his name) learning and adjusting to Daniel Tates life. Then in the last 200 pages it becomes a mystery. It got annoying that the main character would come up with the conclusion when there is so little evidence and it could of easily been something else. I still am not 100% sure who did it because there was so little evidence and no one confessed. It was just a constant flip this person did it. No this person did it. No it was this person. We got information about a character that we already knew but now it’s this person. We never get the actual story about what happens. Based on who the main character thinks is the murder he just creates his own story about what he thinks happened even though he got little information.

The romance was bad. It was simply “boy meets girl. Boy thinks girl is cute”.

The main character was too soft to be a con artist. He bonded with the Tate family too quickly. You would expect him not want to bond or get close with people. The story is written to make him sound like a good guy that you should feel bad for. I think that he should of been more gray. I think that we should of learned more about the main character’s life because all we know is that his mom was smoking and apperently life at hone was bad.

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