I don't know if M.L. Rio's writing is for me. The way certain passages are written, as if to further drive me into the atmosphere of the situation, ended up making me roll my eyes. 

I was interested with this story from the first 20 or so pages, but as it developed it quickly lost me. Despite being a super short read, a little over 100 pages, this felt like it took forever for me to get through. Many others have said it before, but this is a story where truly nothing happens in the end. I think the ending would have had a much bigger payoff had the reader been giving more time to actually care and learn about these characters. The concept of the story just doesn't play well with it being a novella and I think had it gone a much more stereotypical way it would have been a much more enjoyable to read. 

Ultimately, I was just left craving a cigarette.