I Killed Zoe Spanos by Kit Frick is about Anna, a girl working as a nanny in a small town in the Hamptons who is trying to figure out her weird connection to the local girl who went missing not many months ago, Zoe Spanos. The community was left on the edge by the disappearance of the girl, and Anna shockingly resembles the girl, she becomes intrigued by her life and the reasons surrounding her disappearance. Realizing she and Zoe have a strange connection, she fears she knows more about her disappearances than she originally thought. Revealing shocking truths and with the help of a murder podcast, Anna slowly begins to put all the missing pieces of Zoe together.
This book was in no way what I thought it would be. I was expecting a thriller or maybe even a good mystery but the only good thing about this book was the ending. Not only does the writing continue to get more confusing as you read it but it seems almost like the author forgot what she was even writing about by the end of the book. Sometimes you can tell how an author wrote a book, and this time I feel like the author knew how she wanted the book to end, which is why is so amazing but other than that, the whole book needed a new perspective. I wish I could have gotten more of the podcast storyline because that was the part of the book I enjoyed the most. This book has no genre to me, there’s very little mystery and very little thriller. I wouldn’t recommend this book, there wasn’t much to like and I don’t expect someone to read nearly 400 pages just to read the ending, because by that point you don’t care anymore. This book is barely a 2 out of 5 stars and a book that I will only probably remember because of the sub-par writing.