"Bound" was written in clear narrative style. That's the first thing that came to mind. Lately it has been all about authors trying to pass off their unique writing styles to make themselves and their books distinguishable. However, Antonya Nelson tried to steer away from that and stuck with the classic narration. I loved how the events, at first, didn't coincide with each other. But as the plot moved on, things started to fall into place. The story ran the entire course of a year (thus the changing of seasons that opened each part of the book), but the plot itself was short and compressed, and utterly simple. It was only Nelson's writing style that added garlands that the plot needed, helping the reader dive deeper into the characters' hearts.

The fact that I both liked and hated the most was the vocabulary. It's heavy and deep, and it sounded unrealistic if people sharing an average conversation in real life would really get into vocabulary as such. At first I highly doubted Nelson's actual knowledge of these deep words, like she just right-clicked in Microsoft Word on every simple word and looked up for some in-depth synonym of it to make it sound like she's all-knowing. But in the end, it got entertaining--her use of words, I mean--and I also got to touch up my vocabulary.

I liked the book and how it indirectly revolved around dogs. The first chapter alone had gripped me--it was the very heart of the novel, its taking place producing a ripple effect.