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Some smack-you-over-the-head callbacks to previous conversations

I don't think Jaydon's motives are strong enough to justify his actions.

A lot of the problems that the Black Spring residents deal with could be solved if someone just...put a tracking device on Katharine? Maybe they're afraid she would retaliate, but clearly someone managed to stitch her eyes and mouth closed, so there must be a way to do it, right?

I really respect detailed world-building, and that's exactly what Heuvelt has done here. The prose may not be the smoothest, but the premise is so well constructed that, despite its ridiculousness on the surface, you start to think it's plausible.

Con: the diction is very slangy, to the narrative's detriment. Introducing characters by stating "___was his name and ___was his game" seems cheap.

Pro: the narrative unfolds artfully, establishing the main conflict bit by bit without sounding contrived.