The dialogues thing is interesting to me! It doesn’t strike me as something that different, because in French (or at least in French Canada, I’m not so sure about France), that’s how dialogues are usually put in books! When I started reading in English, the quantity of quotation marks was what was hard to get used to for me!

In my native language all books are written like this one (with little horizontal lines — called dialogue lines — each time someone speaks, and no quotation marks). I grew up with this style and as such it is very familiar to me (however this is the very first time I see it in a book written in English).

As you can imagine when I first started reading books in English I too have been flabbergasted by the difference, especially because I kept looking for the little lines in the beginning, and found quotation marks to be somewhat burdensome, as they were everywhere These days (after many years of reading mostly in English) I am used to both styles, and yet even I was surprised at the approach they chose (and I very much wonder why). It’s been like meeting a long lost friend though, and I am glad that you mentioned it