The Southern Magicks

2.5 rounded up.
I feel bad for not liking this book more but honestly if I hadn't received it as an ARC I wouldn't have finished it. The premise of the book was super promising, and the cover art is gorgeous, and I had very high hopes.
However, the characters' interactions seemed so wildly off and I often found them hard to follow or completely illogical. I often wondered if Dex behaved so weirdly because the process to erase his memory left him brain damaged but everyone seemed to also behave in equally weird ways. Some scenes came across as bloated with unnecessary exposition while a lot of the book came across as choppy and relationships were left implied to be important instead of developed.
The story does have good bones so to speak and the characters have potential but, ultimately, I feel like this book wasn't finished.
For the sex-repulsed in the room: there's one not overly graphic sex scene and quite a bit of sex talk but you could skim over the passages without losing much.