The effectiveness of a speech tags is more often related to how you used it rather than what type of speech tag it is
It is used to alert the readers about a sentence that is directly spoken
hope this helps
If it is the question that you are referencing to then I would say the answer would be hopeful. The garden Is not dead and she is not as alone as she thinks. You must look into the message of the story for this.
This section refines and serves the author’s purpose because It lets the reader know that the authors are going to describe how honey relates to the story of sugar. This book is about the history of sugar and the changes and consequences that sugar brought to humanity.
I’m not sure anyone here has read the book so we can’t answer that lol
