I love Kring's writing style - it's vivid and to the point - not all flowery and wordy. I learned some things about life and death from this book, and thought the story unfolded and ended beautifully. The characters were very real and loveable. I thought the subject matter was really depressing and didn't really look forward to reading the book, but felt like I had to find out the secret and that I owed it to the characters.