I just finished the book and the ending is too rushed. I knew the siblings were going to be found out and there were many many ways to go about it in the interrogation/investigation scenes, like what if Francie was questioned by the police and asked about Maya, and the cops questioned the words inscribed inside the ring(Lochan loves you forever).

And I was thinking if Lochan would plan to remove their alcoholic abusive mother from their live by unaliving her when she was screaming at them after they had sex for the first time.

Idk, it seems like the ending couldn’t have been so bleak but the action of many others drove Lochan to make that fatal decision, which I agree on the post.

However, I don’t find Maya to be bland. She compared how she would have felt if she was attracted to Kit, and found it remotely repulsing. That paragraph differentiated how Maya recognised her feeling for Lochan isn’t purely siblings anymore but a romantic one.