TWs for this book include: animal death, forced polygamy, implied rape, implied pedophilia, Kill Your Gays, sexism, racism

There sure is a lot happening in this book. It was billed to me as a sort of dark fantasy version of purity novels and it certainly has some Thoughts on puritanical patriarchies (like we all do). It had decent but not amazing world building, a decent plot and some cool magic stuff in it. The problems with it are that it never actually does that good of a job of subverting the culture, or at least not strong enough for the impact to hit. The ending comes as a bit of a shock because we don't actually see the town changing enough to justify it. I think the characters aren't that deep and the love interest in particular seems very bland. I don't understand the attraction, I don't understand his motivations, but this is true for 99% of the background characters as well. I also didn't enjoy the "women with magic are bad" trope and I kept expecting that to be subverted but it didn't really get there. I'm not sure how this ultimately made me feel. I didn't hate it, I didn't love it. I just am disappointed in it.