Wasn’t for me but not bad. 

The story paints the setting well with the vibes of a rundown trailer park, fleas, old southern town in the backwoods. It had the common beats of the teenager that’s acting out, the hardened mother with a past, and her smooth-talking manipulative, abuser ex coming back into town. But I never cared about any of these characters or their journeys here.

On the positive, the book had an effectively good portrayal of grooming, codependency, and abandonment issues. There’s probably a character study that could be done on Manny. You see how people get drawn into Manny’s web easily and why Kit is so starved for love and paranoid all the time. But I hated the dialogue and didn’t care too much for the story telling style.