I liked that he was the person everyone wanted to blame but in the end, he was blameless (is that a spoiler? I don’t think so, I never thought he was guilty). He was talked about the whole book but only showed up in the plot once or twice. He’s so manipulative and cunning that no one knew what to think of him. I won’t say he was my favorite but by far the most interesting. I couldn’t understand why she did what she did after Ben was accused.

The character I identified with the least was Patty, but I think that’s only because I’m not a mother. She had been under an illusion she was coaxed into for so long that she believed it and had trouble finding a new truth. It would be hard and I think it would give me some of the quirks that Libby had. I can’t imagine growing up in Libby’s shoes, but I don’t think it would be a walk in the park, a ‘brand new Day’ for me. I’m going to try to keep this as spoiler free as possible, and I’ll warn you when I’m going to spill some major plot points! And like in Gone Girl, there are twists all the way through and they’re wonderful. I loved the alternating points of view and the time jumps, which helped reveal just enough to keep me up late finding out what happened next. Lyle is likable all the way through which was refreshing. I thought none of them would be redeemable and they would all end up being terrible people and I’m so happy that I was wrong! Libby is hard to like at first, but she grows on you. I was prepared to have every character like I did in Gone Girl. As Libby’s search takes her from shabby Missouri strip clubs to abandoned Oklahoma tourist towns, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started-on the run from a killer.

Libby hopes to turn a profit off her tragic history: She’ll reconnect with the players from that night and report her findings to the club-for a fee. They hope to discover proof that may free Ben. Twenty-five years later, the Kill Club-a secret secret society obsessed with notorious crimes-locates Libby and pumps her for details. Libby Day was seven when her mother and two sisters were murdered in “The Satan Sacrifice” of Kinnakee, Kansas.” She survived-and famously testified that her fifteen-year-old brother, Ben, was the killer.

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