Status Updates From Gliff

Not going to lie, the stylistic choice to not use speech marks is making it difficult to read. The author starts a new paragraph for a new speaker, but you read the sentence, get to the speech tag, and think, "Oh, was she talking?" and when there's a sentence after the speech tag, it's not alway clear if that is a continuation of the speech, or narrative.

I wonder what the purpose was behind the choice?

What the hell did I just read

I'm 8% in and I sill don't know the names or ages of 2 out of 3 of the MCs. The sisters have left their mum working at a hotel (the mother is filling in for her sick sister—the girls' aunt—so she doesn't lose her job), and are travelling with a male called Leif. So far it is unclear to me what their relationship is to Leif, but there was a line suggesting he shared a bed with their mother, so maybe a step father?

This is a sentence I just read: My sister and I, last summer, had seen something that happened to the place where people who travel up and down the country all year round and live in their vehicles usually parked and stayed for a while.

Reading this is hurting my brain. The sentences are so wordy and non-specific. I will persevere.