love the premise of this book & the free sample of chapter one was good enough for me to purchase the book, which I now regret. Possible spoilers ahead: The author spends a ridiculous amount of time discussing the food Clementine eats & I understand it goes with the story but it's overly detailed & those scenes didn't need to be that long. In contrast, there are other scenes that are entirely too short & left me feeling like I completely missed things. A character's death comes out of the blue & is never really discussed to the point where I went back in my reading because I thought I missed something... I didn't. The author just dumps things on you & doesn't elaborate. There's a drawn out scene where she ends up creating art with her assistant but it doesn't make sense why or what it is. The feud with Clementine & another artist comes to a head but nothing really comes of it except a frenemies situation which doesn't ring true. In fact, the way the author portrays artists & artists with mental health issues seems like they personally dislike them. The end is completely open & not wrapped up at all, but it's in a way that felt like a cop out. She spent so much time writing about food & that I think she got tired of the actual story & just stopping writing. You can't have a main character sell off everything, give away her cat & car, write a letter to the police saying to look for her body & then have her spend the rest of her last night with someone she's mad at. Honestly, Ms. Ream should write food reviews & not novels. I have no idea how this book has so many good reviews... probably friends of the author or people who got ARCs but didn't leave truthful reviews or disclose that fact. I wish I could get a refund.