She also describes 90% of facial expressions as “jaw tightened,” “jaw clenched,“ “jaw ticked,” “jaw clicked” and it drove me absolutely crazy.

And! Over and over says “the expression left no room for discussion” - like find another phrase please.

Where the Crawdads Sing - 1st page after the prologue. I couldn’t decide if the short, choppy sentences were the issue, or if it was that the people in the book were given dialogue that was supposed to make them sound ignorant AF.