The gimmicks were distracting

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This was an interesting story but I really did not like the little “intro” section on every single chapter. It broke up the story and provided no useful information. There was also something going on with the chapter numbers but I don’t care enough to go back and check - for no apparent reason, the chapters begin to count back down in the second half of the book rather than continuing to count up. It’s like the author didn’t feel confident enough about the storyline so she included all of these gimmicks which were distracting rather than turning the book into something cool.

And the story was good enough on its own. The characters were well drawn, and the setting was perfect. I truly felt how cold and lonely and bleak everything was throughout the story. If the author had spent a little more time fleshing out the details of the story, it could have really been something.