I can't even with this book.
It's about an eighteen-year-old boy called Jacob who lives in a crap rural area in the mountains somewhere who feels trapped into a criminal lifestyle because, he says, it's in his blood. His dad sells drugs, his mom takes drugs, and he dropped our of school so he could work with his dad, running drugs, laundering money, and occasionally roughing people up. It's a crap lifestyle but he can't seem to leave it.
I kept reading because I started to like Jacob a bit, and it seemed like he might actually be able to drag himself out from under his self-inflicted death sentence; maybe he could break away from his dad and leave the mountains for a different life, but...
SPOILER ALERT!
He can't. Nope. No help for this guy.
Thanks, David Joy, for getting me to care about this character and then ruining him completely. Ugh.
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