Okay, so I requested the book because I loved the title and the blurb was interesting ―a woman is missing and the husband reaches out to her former lover, seeking help to find her.

I must admit that I am a very impatient reader. And this book has 82 chapters. Short chapters but yeah…This book was painfully slow and yet I couldn't abandon the book or just skim through it because it's so beautifully written. The imagery, the emotions, the thoughts...

However, after 42 chapters, I began to lose patience. And interest. After a point, I stopped caring about Vera, or where she was or why she suddenly disappeared and all that. Beautiful writing is cool of course, but mystery should not be that slow. However, if you are a patient reader, you might love this book. Read it for the sheer beauty of the prose.

A woman disappears but the police aren't convinced that she didn't leave voluntarily. So, her husband seeks out a former lover to enlist his help in finding her.

I enjoy mysteries surrounding a missing person -- to a point -- but this book exceeded that point. The former lover, Jake, seems to be always just a half-step behind finding Vera, and that grew tiresome after a while. Additionally, the drug lord's involvement in the search, and subsequent violence, made little sense because Vera barely knew him and had not succumbed to the lure of drugs. Perhaps I dropped a thread of the plot. I kept reading because the writing was pretty good, but then I was disappointed in the end.

Thank you to NetGalley and the Publisher for the ARC. All opinions are my own.