Status Updates From The Merciful Scar

This finale portion is like

Deeply stupid and unnecessary

See maybe if Andy had seen a licensed therapist after the murder of his mother he wouldn't be having a mental health crisis now as an adult

But no let's pretend mental illness work camps in the middle of nowhere are moral and good

It's actually very hard to kill someone via manual hand strangulation

Also where the fuck did her dad even come from wrf is this

Again, he father sucks, but he's also objectively correct that this unlicensed woman running a work camp for mentally ill people in the middle of nowhere is objectively doing a bad thing

It continues to be very weird that every chapter ends with a page telling me to share the chapter with my friends

I don't think this needed to be divided into parts tbh

This book feels dangerous because this kind of work should be done with a qualified professional and not some random ass nun

Unless our protagonist and Frankie are going to have lesbian sex later I don't care about their relationship deepening I don't give a shit about this girl's mommy issues and how Frankie is going to be a mom standin

I know the point is gonna be that a felony doesn't make you a bad person but I do hate that the protagonist is currently like "he can't be a felon bc he's a good person."

This fully did not need to be divided into 3 parts

It's 358 pages

It could've all been one part

Also most mental health inpatient units can and do know how to deal with non-suicidal self harm

Very weird to imply they don't

Yeah so actually the fact that Frankie isn't a liscenced counselor and is running like a mental illness work camp in the mountains is actually really bad

Like protagonist's dad is being a dick but he's in the right lmao

Girl why would you ever say someone's eyes were "at half mast" 😭

It continues to be very weird that every chapter ends with "share this chapter with your friends!"

I really appreciated this novel. It addressed some real issues we face in our broken world from a biblical perspective without sugarcoating the issue. I appreciated the dialogue between the main character and her thoughts. While I haven’t struggled with the same issues as the protagonist, Nancy Rue and Rebecca St. James made her very relatable in terms of addressing my own struggles. That makes a great story!

Does the author have any experience at all with bears bc every farmer I've ever met would fire a warning shot even if you aren't allowed to actually shoot the bear.

The noise is often enough to scare them off

Sheep very much can in fact, bite, kick, and run fast

This is a lot of words to have the not-really-a-nun character admit that she has no qualifications and that this "therapy" intensive is just a way for her to get free labour from mentally ill people

Yeah man I'm not drinking raw milk actually. I'm with the protagonist on this one.

This character is milking a cow. The word she's looking for is "nipple" or "teat"

The fact that every chapter ends with a thing that's like "share this chapter with your friends!" Continues to be insane and annoying

The other issue is the protagonist is an annoying bitch