Beware the Woman by Megan Abbott

 And we're back to the land of mediocrity. This isn't as bad as some of the less-than-stellar novels I've read the past week and change--the ending does manage to muster some tension--but the rest of the book is just a grind, you can see where things are going to go from about halfway into the novel, the non-POV characters are all so inscrutable as to be identical, and the POV ends up seeming kinda dim for not seeing what's coming, not recognizing at least the bones of the situation she's in. The novel does have things it wants to say about at least some of the ways women are scared of men (and, plausibly, some o why men say they're scared of women) but the story is all so jumbled and the prose--while being nicely turned, occasionally--is just so clunky and sometimes clumsy that it's hard to see much subtext in it.