Where the Hurt Is

The plot is basic and the ending is pretty simple to figure out. The books suffer from two things:

1. Kelsey feels the need to regularly include racial epithets in the writing. Yes, we know the characters are from small town Oklahoma during the 1960s, but you can easily write a book that includes racist characters without needing to resort to using the n-word, especially as a white author.

2. This passage:

With some effort, I managed not to sneak a peak at Peggy Miller's shapely legs, which were a great deal more exposed than I am accustomed to seeing.

“Glad to know you Miss Miller.”

I had to look somewhere, it would've been impolite not to, so I looked in her eyes. They were heavily massacred and shadowed, but I could tell they were brown with flecks of green.