DNF

I struggle to get through this book. Too many characters and not enough clear writing. I thought it was a murder mystery where 10 people are in a situation, one dies, and then it would be a process of elimination to try to figure out who the murderer is as other people die kinda like, "and then there were none" but, this is different; yes, it takes you through background of each person -i think- similar in part to "and then there were none", but its not clear.

I have no idea who the child is in this story so I'm wondering, is the child then the murderer? It is very confusing to try to figure out what's going on. Is the reason we are listening to the horrific abuse of this mother to the child the background information we need to understand why the child then became a murderer? Have we even met the child? I'm so confused, so it's hard to want to continue finishing this book when it keeps going back into the past to the abuse, the child suffers and we have no idea who the child is and then is also confusing to clarify which character is which as we go back into the past.
i feel like i have to remember every name of each character to then understand who they are when it flips back to their backstory or to the actual mystery.

I do believe the author based this story on "And then there were none" by Agatha Christie, either consciously or subconsciously but their vision wasn't clear so having this book in an audible version makes it doubly unclear. Maybe if I was actually reading a physical book and I could flip back to find out which character is which and almost create a diagram of who is who so I understand who I'm focusing on it would be better, (but who reads or listens to a book for leisure to take notes?), but as it stands, and as an audible book, I would not recommend this book.

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