Makes for a good cold open where you want to inform the reader of some detail that the book's characters aren't privy to.

It's very post-modern. You start with the ending, and then the rest of the book is how everything that happened led to her untimely demise.

it’s barely post-modern. it’s a boring and overused tv plot technique that makes me groan whenever I come across it. build up excitement, tension, drama, create an interesting scene, then throw it all away with a “how did we get here” and a roll back in time

Post-modernism is 50 years old, and refers to the modernity of the first half of that century. Of course it feels cliché and outdated in 2022.

Yes. And I was so happy when Squid Game didn't do that.

Yep. That's me. I bet you're wondering how I got myself into this situation...

three weeks earlier... i don't like when stories start that way

Maybe the novel's about the bears?

Sadly the girl was not just any wanderer in the woods, she was the daughter of the psychotic and vengeful huntsman, thus began a game pitting bears and man in a contest for supremacy that would change the enchanted forest - forever.

The bears being pursued by humans because they ate the girl, and therefore having to leave their nice home and live life on the run.

Starring Liam Neeson as the hunter...

Goldilocks

They ate his little girl... Now he's pissed.

Coming to a theater near you.

Plot twist: Was a frame job by the Big Bad Wolf.