Thanks netgalley for the preview copy! The description of this book pulled me in right away. However, it seems like this book still needs some work. There were typos, missing words and formatting issues in many parts of the book as well as random insertions of the authors name in the middle of sentences. I found inconsistencies in the characters i.e. a 16 year old girl mentioning she started going to church when her ex husband left her. There were many flashbacks that seemed out of order and were then contradicted by the next narrators point of view. I honestly feel like there was too much put into this book.
Spoiler alert: there’s a gay pastors daughter who lies and sneaks around, drug use, a 20’s something having an affair with a single mom in her 40’s and while this is going on he goes on a bender and impregnates another 20 something, a family who takes in a foster child but their biological child is racist and cruel towards the foster child, and then there’s a 16 year old girl cat fishing a man who turns out to be a sex offender. Oh and did I mention she attends an anti abortion rally in order to go meet him-the storylines just seem to be trying too hard. I think the general premise would have been a good book if it wasn’t packed with so many whammy’s that seem to come out of nowhere.