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The Violent Season by Sara Walters
5.0

TW: Mentions of Self Harm and Suicidal Ideation. Depictions of Substance Use/Abuse, Abusive Relationships, suicide, sexual assault.
This is by no means a complete list as a lot of what is going on in this book is absolutely Toxic.

But I loved every moment of this book, Walters does a wonderful job weaving us into the claustrophobic town of Wolf Ridge. This is one of the few books where I feel that the depiction of a Small Town mirrors what I've experience in real life. The reality where everyone knows of everyone else in someway and the weariness that often comes with outsiders.
Along with how much work is gone into maintaining the "status-quo" even if that means not confronting what is happening right in frond of them.

This is fast paced and will keep you tied to your seat from beginning to end and the twist at the end somehow surpassed my expectations so spectacular that I had to go back and listen to it a second time to make sure I hadn't imagined it.