Status Updates From The Devil's Tree

This book is scaring me to the point I feel sick.

Straight, white girl compares trailer park poverty and the woes thereof with being a black girl in a racist town and being a gay man in a homophobic church. This book is very disappointingly tone deaf and basically reduces these characters to plot devices for the main character to virtue signal and feel pity with... Not uncommon for the genre, but still exhausting.

Did... did a teenage boy just get possessed and used to torment a gay man with insinuations that because he's gay he'd also like a minor..?!

Terrible timing and contrived circumstances have just taken "representation" and turned it into somethung cringe-inducing and questionable.