Status Updates From Don't Let Go

The plot definitely makes up for the annoying, grammatically incorrect way to use dashes! The mystery is being built up well, I couldn't put it down for nearly two hours while outside, even though I was having to look out for both a cat on a leach and an off leach dog. (On my parents yard, in a quiet countryside home, so not many dangers to have to worry about. I would never put animals at risk.)

The dashes indicating speech and using them to also show jumps in thought text is really frustrating, but at least the story is interesting.

Why do some people use - this symbol to indicate talking..? Please, for the love of all that is good, use quotation marks!