Point of View

The bulk of the novel is narrated from a detached third-person point of view that shifts between a number of different characters, including Daphne, Gavin, Mia, Tate, and Rain. However, Holsinger occasionally breaks up this bulk of narration with passages from a blog-style website that are narrated in the first person and have more of a formal or journalistic tone than the prose of the novel at large. This strategy allows Holsinger to occupy a number of different characters' perspectives as a means of advancing the novel's collection of themes, which would be impossible to express with a single perspective character, while the passages of blog-style journal entries allow Holsinger to dot the landscape of the novel with cultural references and news reports that lend the events of the novel a more realistic or lifelike appearance.

The decision to narrate the majority of the text...