Should you read this book and is there chance you will like it? Maybe if you don't care at all about (or really tiiiny tiny bit only and can live without): 1) world or character building [so about Southwest: it’s hot and desert like, there a lesbians, nonbinary, horses and all men you meet are bad. Oh there is some war maybe somewhere or something that uses all diesel. What happened? Don’t worry about it, you’ll never find out. Characters will not grow any positive way only alarming to me at least] 2) alarming to no marketed as YA way of handling feelings, not that all YA is bad! [Instant love fit in YA much better than just adult story. Esther is not okey! it’s not ‘normal’ to fist be “I’m sad” and nice-looking sparkly eyes hour later and lust-mode engage.] 3) having story as shallow as drying puddle [Don’t ask and don’t think and this is fine. Days did go on but why would we care what happened? It's like character in game that dies in 5min from first meeting and we should feel something for them? *Press F to pay respect*] this may be book for you. Even then it’s heavy maybe. This could maybe work as even shorter story but not 4 hours / or 170+ page book. You could cut 1/4th or 1/3rd of story and I don’t think it would chance book much and cutting maybe less troublesome than trying to build this empty Southwest to feel something. This was more like script or draft that needed to ADD about everything to make this interesting as description is. I did listen this as audiobook read by Romy Nordlinger and not a fan at all. Characters sounded flat with (to my ears) fake as fluff southern accent that you use to mock southern accent. To me it sounded monotone, it just kept going without feeling. Maybe they couldn’t get into the book just like me. But to give credit that I did finish this as I could listen when doing something else but if I had tried to physically read this would most likely not have finished. But you can borrow it free soooo, maybe?