Point of View

This novel is not told through strict chronological narration. Rather, it is told through narration with the addition of numerous documents, text threads, and podcast transcripts. The narration is all told from the first person point of view of the protagonist, Anna Hunt. This point of view serves the novel well because the main premise of the novel is that Anna wants to find out what happened to Rachel in school last year. All of the other students at the school know what happened, so if Swinarksi would have focused on other points of view as well, the reader would have more information than the protagonist, and the reader would not be able to follow along with the mystery as it unfolds. By the end of the novel, Anna has pieced together all that has happened, and as such, the reader understands what happened both...