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Genre: Thriller
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪.5

One thing about me: I love a good prep school murder mystery. The It Girl tells the story of April, the Oxford ‘It Girl’ who Hannah Jones is assigned to live with. April is found dead at the end of their second term and Hannah provides key evidence in convicting the suspected killer, Neville. When Neville dies in prison a decade later, Hannah’s world is shaken when a reporter presents her with new information that Neville may not have been guilty.

This book cut between past and present and artfully showed how April could be both loved and hated by everyone around her. There was no shortage of people with motives and I was guessing until the end about who the killer really was.

The emotional destruction that the situation had on Hannah was heart-wrenching. Particularly, the way it drew a rift between her and her husband, just as they were expecting their first child.

I didn’t find the ending to be mind blowing, which is my extremely high bar for a thriller, but I was satisfied with it.

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