Point of View

For the most part, the narrative is told from the third-person limited omniscient perspective of two different characters: Faith and the man she calls Rat Face. This allows the reader to follow the thoughts, actions, and events that affect each character and see the cause and effect outcomes of these events. This also allows readers to see a side of the known villain, Rat Face, that would not otherwise have been possible (for example, if the novel had been told in the first-person perspective).

The point of view supports the thriller genre as the narrative from Rat Face’s perspective allows readers to learn information that he has, but Faith does not have, to understand the strange things that are happening to Faith. For example, when someone kills Dr. Melding and tries to frame Faith, readers know that this is going to happen and that...