Home Before Dark

This book has good bones but the author's prose is bloated and often felt like I was reading a teen's diary. Maybe the first person POV made it seem worse, but I felt that the narration was made up of incessant inner dialogue from the protagonist that repetitively over explained their feelings about everything. This narration also frequently trails off into exposition that is largely inconsequential.

This writing gets in the way of itself and keeps any good moments in the book from being great.