Lesley Barklay’s Reviews > Gliff > Status Update

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?

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?