What is the author's style in Petra: City in Stone by T. L. Higley?

The novel is told in third-person limited omniscience narration from the revolving point-of-view of four different characters: Cassia, Julian, Malik, and Hagiru. In all the character's chapters, the narration is completely reliable. The modulating point-of-view is crucial to understanding the plot of the novel as a whole. The characters are all connected through a web of relationships, and all are tied together in the great battle between good and evil. Much of the characters' thoughts and plans occur simultaneously within their own heads. So while Cassia is planning to rescue her son from the queen, the queen is concocting plans to kill Cassia, and Julian is devising plans to protect her while Malik tries to sway Julian into a position of power within the church. Each of these aspects is vital to the plot overall, and the story would only work if the reader could slow down time and experience moments from multiple character's perspectives. The novel is divided equally between dialogue and exposition, with much of the exposition occurring within the thoughts of the characters, not from an external narrator. The descriptive passages work hard to conjure exciting images of the historic city Petra, and it is clear that T.L. Higley has researched her novel well and is comfortable incorporating historical information into a successful fiction book.