What is the author's style in the book, A Boat to Nowhere?

An obvious strength of this story is its well-paced, suspenseful plot, which Wartski achieves by skillfully intermingling generally believable, fluent conversation and clean, short-sentence narration. As its title indicates, the first, "preparatory" part of the story is from Mai's point of view; readers establish necessary emotional rapport with the characters by seeing everything through the alertly sensitive eyes of a girl, just twelve, who, like Anne Frank, is at the beginning of womanhood.