Rating 3/5 ⭐️

Spice 1/5🌶️

Grady is having the best and worst day of his life. He just made The NY Times Bestseller list and his wife goes missing. 

A year later, his wife is still missing and Grady is falling apart. He cannot write, cannot sleep, and is living in a rundown motel with nothing left. He is invited to stay on an island to write in solitude which he prefers. 

Once he gets there he thinks it is a fresh start and a chance to get his life back on track and maybe to move on but strange things start happening and now he isn’t sure if this was a good idea. 

This is about little over 300 pages, so it is a pretty quick read. I enjoyed the book. I liked the premise and thought it was interesting and unique. It had some decent twists and turns that I was not expecting. I enjoyed the dual narration and the switch from past to present. 

There were many things I liked about the book but it just wasn’t a show stopper for me. I had a hard time with the pacing. Felt very slow to me but then everything felt very rushed at the end. Also the writing seemed a little inconsistent. Noticed a few phrases or wording that just didn’t seem to fit but could have been that it is based in Europe. 

Overall, decent read.

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