Alec Worrell-Welch’s Reviews > Southernmost > Status Update

I enjoyed the beginning, but right now each character feels very flat, and their actions and conversations build more like a string of caricatures than the outplaying of organic tensions. The book addresses sensitive themes—a family’s faith convictions changing asymmetrically, hostility toward LGBT people in rural America—but it is currently not handling them with great depth, creativity, or sensitivity.