The prose style really propelled this along, for me. The character work was good, though all their arcs and the plot pretty much never moved away from where I expected things to go, otherwise the book would probably warrant a higher rating from me. The central tension being tension-free, yet it never being in danger of me putting it down, feels like an accomplishment, to me. World building was also believable, especially, painfully, annunciated with roe being repealed. I don’t doubt Canada would roll over like that too. Cooperating with a fascist US, sending back, at the border, anyone attempting to get in for an abortion.