Definitely really different from the kinds of books I usually read, in large part because of the setting that I would consider the backbone of the story. It's not a happy story in any sense; that, as well as the ending, are to be expected from the title and summary - the inescapable inevitability and simultaneous sanctity of Death and other unstoppable forces. The reader is put in a similar position to the characters', because ultimately

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the characters are just as powerless to stop events from unfolding as the do, as the reader is

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