short flashback chapters that give you more insight to a main character and give you some insight into the next chapter and the character’s reactions to events within it. despite hating the book, i think the invisible life of addie larue did this masterfully!

saaaame, i used to be someone who would stop a reading session in the middle of a chapter, but now i just can’t for whatever reason. long chapters make it really difficult mow because even though i might be tired, i force myself to read to the end of the chapter

unless my memory is failing me, foundryside by robert jackson bennett does this. you learn as you go. it’s really nice, but having waited years between books in the trilogy (and that the series is lesser known) really took me out of some moments when i was racking my brain trying to figure out/remember what some of the devices and stuff they use were