I don't have a degenerative eye disease like RP but I'm visually impaired and have had a cornea transplant in one eye but kind of like Laney's character I can't see anything but blobs of bright colour in one eye - I always joke with my friends saying "ah this one is just here for decoration :D) - and I have deteriorating sight in the other, I haven't read South of Surrender yet but that is one thing I didn't know about Laney and from reading your description of her I kinda feel a bit more connected to the character with her challenges in every day life and mobility :) From books I've read/listened to not many have had characters with eye or sight problems but I always love it when an author takes that on because you can see that they put themselves in that characters shoes and it shows in the writing like you said about putting your fist over your eye while writing trying to get a feel of what its like :)Thank you, I can already tell the characters POV in this book will be great from your post and I can honestly say I can't wait to read this book especially with the amount of effort and research you've put into Laney's background :) Thanks for the great post and giveaway :)