Action and Suspense Come Together in <i>Broken</i>'s Dark Tale

In , Travis Thrasher spins a dark tale using the present tense. This unusual, and difficult, technique was a smart move—the pace quickens, the action intensifies, the emotions are immediate. Everything happens now. The suspense grows, indeed it starts to reverberate, as the reader moves through the short chapters.

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