Blood Over Bright Haven

The first half was really good, but once the story reaches the inevitable twist that everyone saw coming from miles away, it turns into an endless repetition of the same dialogue which boils down to something like this:

“Doing the evil thing is evil! Why is everyone doing the evil thing?!”
“Because religion/money/tradition/racism. you don't understand because you're too full of yourself/a woman/of an inferior race.”

A lot of this could have been cut, along with the unnecessary romance. There are good ideas about the interplay of tradition, responsibility and guilt in a scenario like this, but the author doesn't trust readers to understand them without having characters say them out loud over and over again.