Could be better.

I struggled to finish this. I only got a third of the way through before giving up.

I just couldn't connect with the characters. Especially when we got the life history of the psychiatrist twice. Her schooling was repeated almost verbatim when we met her sister. It wasn't needed, and when things keep getting over explained I get disinterested rather quickly.

The timing of the river dump to the kidnapping also jumps around a bit at the beginning, and it was unclear which timeline we were in. Plus, did nobody think to follow the basics of finger prints and DNA for Jane Doe? Especially given they decide early on she's a woman who came from an affluent background. A woman of means was likely reported missing with those things on record. It's the little things that niggle, and these all happened only a little over an hour into the book.

I liked the idea of the story, and I think with some tighter editing it could be a really good, escape the real world, type novel. Sadly, it doesn't quite work for me as it stands.

The narrator isn't bad, and I think she did a decent enough job. So plus marks for that aspect of the production.

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