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I’m giving this three stars because I’m thinking I might be going through a little period of overly low ratings for book club books and wondering if that’s more me than them. That said: the nature writing was decent, the poems were terrible, and the characters were kind of one-dimensional. The dialogue was a hard no for me - I’m not a big fan of dialect, but it was also not written how people talk - and I hated that the dialect randomly got thrown into the narrative. Yes, the steps were made of
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A slow start, I wasn’t sure that I could finish this audiobook, but I’m glad I pushed through. I think it was an excellent story of an outsider who is misunderstood and brings up a lot of hard to discuss topics such as domestic violence, rape, murder, and nurture v nature. I would strongly suggest listening via audiobook.

Apr 05, 2019
Katelyn
marked it as to-read

