So, this is Christian fiction. Completely my fault for not reading the genre before accepting the blurb for an opportunity to earn a free book. I ended up earning the free book, thank you Bookish First, and then discovered it was Christian fiction. I get irritated by religiosity fairly fast, but I really wanted to give this book a chance since it was my fault for not paying attention to genre in the first place. I did my best to just skim past the heavily religious aspects as they did not add anything to the book for me and my bias would have ended up affecting the review. Considering the genre, it's not a terrible book. The characters are really well developed and complex, David's pain and struggle with his own "coming to Jesus" were handled really well and made him a very knotted up tangled kinda guy. The part I think I struggled with the most is how many different topics this book was trying to tackle at once. Religious struggles, interracial relationships in small town America, immortality as a metaphor, domestic violence, acting as judge and jury when your situation places you above mortal restrictions, etc. There was so much going on in this book it detracted from the story. Any one or two of these things would have been more than enough to fill a book, all of them together means they just got surface skimmed and the book suffered for it. And then, the ending. Cripes. It just ends. Splat. I'm guessing there's going to be a second book, but I can't say that I was interested enough to read it, there was no resolution at all, and I mean at freaking all, to a single one of the many threads that started in the first book. I gave it three stars because the writing style and character development are on point, but the story layout and messiness kinda bungled it for me.