Heartsong

Just kept getting worse

Don’t read it.

It’s ridiculous. Paints religion in the poorest light.

And normalizes child grooming.

Spoilers ahead:

Girl falls for a man with red flags. He proposes weeks into knowing her and she doesn’t know his phone number, what he does for work, or essentially anything about him when she agrees. Mind you, he’s also insulted her religion by then, called her stupid various times (without using the word), and showed dangerous character flaws (showing up at her house without giving him her address, calling her house phone without giving him her number, telling her what she will do).

The author paints characters that are weak-minded. I’ll take it further. Pigs with lipstick.

The fact that religion is weaved throughout the book makes the entire thing even more disturbing.

Also as a side note, her obsession with portraying an ideal man masculine (don’t drink a shot for every time she writes this word in the book - you’ll be unalived from alcohol poisoning), controlling and protective is even more disturbing when she describes the first love interest as 21 when the girl was 15. They “waited” on pursuing the relationship until she was 17/18 (so he was 23/24) but making it seem like this isn’t child grooming and normalizing that kind of thing is disgusting.

I kept thinking maybe the book would unravel differently. It didn’t. It just got worse and worse.

I’ll never read anything by this author again.