Update: I have been informed by the author (in an unprofessional manner) that this book is not self-published. 
 Update 2: The author has apologized for her email, which is appreciated. 
 I read a lot of self-published work (oh, my cheap-Kindle-book-buying addiction!) so I'm used to the grammatical errors and typos found so frequently in works like these. However, the writing in this novella felt very choppy to the point of making it almost unreadable. Obviously, it's okay to have incomplete sentences for impact, but this writing technique was so overused that the entire book felt like a mash up of two- and three-word blunt partial sentences. It was hard to feel a flow in the writing with such choppiness. 
 And what was that ending??? It was so abrupt! After such build up, I was hoping for a bit more resolution.