This felt a bit like asoiaf but if it was set in a christian small town and tried to be more lyrical. I enjoyed the initial world building and particularly the writing style a lot. Unfortunately the constant "woman experiences massive trauma and abuse and then she dies" and "everybody is a bastard" and "pretty much every woman experiences sexual trauma but doesn't get to have a single feeling about it besides powerless disgust" made my reading experience uhhhh bad. In general it is just bleak and bad things happen because everybody is a bad person and that is not the type of story I enjoy.
TW: ableism, murder, graphic sexual assault, past + current attempted sexual assault of a child, attempted incest (adult son attempts to suckle from his mother), abuse (parental, domestic, child), gore, self harm, violence, cannibalism, animal cruelty, miscarriage, suicidal thoughts