This book did not have the effect on me that I think it was supposed to. It's presented as a thriller but I wasn't thrilled at all. Usually with thrillers I find myself unable to put them down, this was not the case with this book, in fact I found it hard to continue because I just wasn't bothered about the ending. I found some of the language made me cringe and was unrealistic along with some of the characters actions. I thought the depiction of Emily-Jane was purely that of an older woman describing a young girl without actually talking to one in real life to find out what they were like. This made the parts of the book that were in Emily-Janes voice unbelievable. The descriptions of the business were confusing and overly descriptive to the point it didn't help to have them there. On a purely personal level I did not like the inclusion of the covid-19 pandemic having occurred. I like fiction to provide an alternate vision and frankly I just don't want to have the very real awful pandemic brought up when I'm reading a fictional story.