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I entered a bunch of goodreads giveaways for the hell of it, and this is the only one I actually got. I'm trying to give this a shot but there has already been some AI art and some issues with prose and pacing. I like that there is a bird sidekick though. Side note: It says that this is a USA Today best seller but so far only 5 people have rated the book...

This is one of the most effective uses of perspective switches that I have ever seen. It's short chapters so a lot of the perspectives overlap and every observation works both ways. It establishes the narrator's world view and then reframes character descriptions from the previous narrator. So, Darl views Jewel in a detached way, then we get Jewel's internal world, and then Cora wrongfully judges both. I love it.

Gross men written by a gross man. It isn't quite as unbearable as Carrion Comfort because so far there hasn't been any rape, but this is abhorrent. An interesting story but it is just completely ruined by racism, sexism, and sexualizing 15-year-olds.