How High We Go in the Dark

Only just now adding this though I stopped reading a long while ago. It was driving me up a wall just how frequently the author used “x said” after a piece of dialogue. 

Real excerpt:

“Beautiful, isn't it?” Maksim said. “It is,” I said.“And depressing as hell,” Dave said.“It's Siberia,” Maksim said. “We didn't realize Clara had a daughter,” Dave said. “Maybe he doesn't want to talk about this,” Maksim said.”

It happens throughout the book, this is just the most egregious example I caught and it's what ultimately made me put down the book. If it's some sort of stylistic choice that I'm just not hip to, that's fine. Still hate it.