Complicated feelings about this one. I thought the writing and character development was stellar. The characters really came off the page for me and I felt fully immersed in a cold, isolated Alaskan town setting.

But, I felt like this book went on for longer than it needed to (by about 100 pages) and it felt like the characters were being tortured for the sake of creating drama. It was like one punch after the other for all the characters in this book, especially (no spoilers) for the one in the end who is seriously changed. I've just never read a book that threw this many punches to its characters for this long throughout an entire story, so still figuring out how I feel about that.