I really like the story and the twist and for that I would have given the book 5 stars! I'm only giving it 4 because of a few really ugly bad words and a few explicit sex paragraphs. Neither were needed to enhance the story at the time and were very unnecessary. The author needs to rethink using those and just have a good clean book! I'm not going to purchase another book from the author because of those issues and it's a shame because I really did like the book!

....but after a slow start, I found it more & more engaging. I've read and enjoyed this author's books and I would recommend it to people who enjoy this genre. If you, somehow, don't enjoy it, look me up and I'll give you five bucks😉

Growing up I too spent every summer on the Outer Banks and so did the generation before me, so I was initially attracted to the book based upon the setting of the story. I feel that the book brought in too many smaller plots and mysteries, toward the end I was tired of all the "secrets", but overall it was a good story. I would recommend this book as a summer time read, easily read in a couple of days.