Meh.
I was so bored the first half. This place is creepy but you don’t know why. And for half the book’s length that’s the gist. This and that slightly weird and creepy thing happens and….that’s it.
Grady says he loves his wife constantly. Then he’ll make snide remarks about her. But sure, he loves her.
I also picked up on the no men on the island by halfway through so I had a feeling the plot would have a “men are terrible” point to it and I wasn’t wrong.
Grady is a super unreliable narrator, very clearly, throughout the book, so the twist was surprising but not. And for me, the whole “what happened to his wife that night?” question was what kept me going - but then it felt like that was an aside and the real “plot twist” was the whole Kitty is Abby and that whole story which I personally thought was absolutely ludicrous. Not to mention, it’s presented to you in a massive word vomit by one character at the end instead of showing us the reveal in a better way. Not that it would have made it better but they always say show don’t tell and this was a massive TELL TELL TELL. A terrible attempt at being twisty and surprising.
Overall the story didn’t try hard enough until it tried too hard.