The writing here was overall great, there were some lines that made me stop reading for a second and just think. I liked the ambiguity of the characters, their aliases, and the way they interacted with one another did a great job of showing their relationships without spending too many words telling it. 

The concept was simple, a little on the nose considering everything we’ve just gone through (the stores with signs saying Out Of Masks really hit home, which is uncanny, because this was published in 2013). I like that the author created this little world in an epidemic and merely used that to provide atmosphere instead of waxing poetic about it. Very gritty. I also liked how they formatted speech, forgoing quotation marks. I like unusual writing in that way. 

I didn’t love the plot, and with a novella like this, to not have a gripping plot is a problem. Luckily it was short enough to just power through. I thought it was overdone and not transformed in an interesting way. It hit all the beats I was expecting it to, never deterred.

It’s an okay book, I probably wouldn’t recommend it to anyone, but I did enjoy the prose.