Last time, Everything changes the day the fire nation Girl Scout comes. (more…)
Category: Unwind Series
UnWholly Ch22 Trust
In which suddenly, I understand this book. (more…)
UnWholly Ch23 Lev
Charles Cavenaugh Jr. meets Lev personally at the entrance of the crumbling mansion. He’s dressed like he’s too rich to worry about how he’s dressed. Even with the Cavenaugh family fortune long gone, Lev figures there must be enough residual wealth to keep at least his generation living elite.
Or, he still moves in rich circles to get information or because it’d be suspicious to suddenly act otherwise – the fact his mansion started out as the headquarters of one side of the war should mean he’s under at least moderate scrutiny. And he’s obviously not pouring tons of money into his outfit if he’s going with slobby chic.
But no, it’s adults doing a thing, they must be hypocritical or stupid or greedy or maybe all at once.
Also haha Lev thinking “family fortune” and “industry” have any connection these days.
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UnWholly Ch24 Miracolina
Ah, and now we’re actually on Miracolina! She’s very mad. She also continues to be the source of the only good writing in this book:
Would this please them, she wonders, for her to be captured and forced to live whole? Denied the holy mystery of the divided state?
Doesn’t that sound like something a religion would actually say? And what would have more claim to the phrase than a thing that is like the already mysterious death but even stranger, and done for the most noble of reasons? (more…)
UnWholly Ch25-27 Lev, Miracolina, Lev
He’s going on about how incredibly attractive Miracolina’s disdain for him is.
No, seriously, this is looking endgame ship and it’s squicking me out – like, this can be cute if there’s the sense it’s because the guy recognizes and respects her opinion, but here there isn’t, it’s just the novelty and he’s trying to stamp it out at the same time. Worst of all options, really.
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UnWholly Ch28 Risa
So hey, remember Risa? She’s now damseled. She’s getting questioning as dumb as Lev’s:
UnWholly Ch28 Cam
New Procedure Allows Kidney Transplants From Any Donor
Welp, that’s it. It’s the end times. Soon we’ll ban abortion, build massive state warehouses for abandoned infants, and have Christian childmurder cults. Even worse, we’ll have the dumbest anarchist group ever and some asshole sue walking around nice-socksing people.
That’s how bad these books are, they even ruin great scientific progress by association.
UnWholly Ch30 – 35, Nelson, Miracolina, Lev, Miracolina, Lev, Nelson
We’re back to our one recurring adult character! He’s griping about how he’s got this really great trap but during storms it floods and then there’s a dead body and ugh so inconvenient so he’s got to check it now rather than keep looking for safehouses like he wants to. (more…)
UnWholly Part Five Ch36-37 Connor, Risa
We’re reached the fifth part! Matters of Necessity. There are seven parts total. There’s also eighty-four chapters. Luckily, it looks like the “parts” option is a more accurate measure because we are indeed most of the way done and it’s just there’ll be a lot of micro-chapters to come.
Wait, you say. That can’t be right. If that’s so, the plot should’ve kicked in a while ago.
Yes. It really should’ve.
UnWholly Ch38-42, Hayden, Connor, Starkey, Connor, Starkey
So, last time, Risa is now giving odd, self-flagellating messages of support for unwinding that totally don’t sound like they were delivered at gunpoint. This time, we find out everyone falls for it. It’s like an even worse version of the plot in Mockingjay. (more…)
43-46 Avalanche, Risa, Cam, Risa
Avalanche is actually Risa’s POV but it’s a brief bit followed by another one that does have her name on it, so I guess that’s why it’s deviating from the POV format.
The form she signs has a line saying she does it of her own free will, but of course she’s coerced into it, and It set into motion a cascading series of events that Risa could not have predicted, and yet was expertly orchestrated by Roberta, her associates, and their money.
I like Risa, so let’s be charitable here and assume she means the exact sequence was way more complex than she expected and not that she was flabbergasted by the idea that forcing her to do something that seemed to have no immediate purpose was just part of a larger plan.
UnWholly, Ch47-51 Audience, Risa, Cam, Risa, Cam
Yup, another string of these two. The two stories really don’t work well as a whole, even though it seems they should – if Risa was lost early on and Connor had to be dealing with her loss while all the other stuff was going on, we would be able to alternate chapters normally. Instead we get first Connor’s storyline, then Risa’s takes over for a bit.
Well, time for that interview. This time, it’s at a morning talk show whose thing appears to be doing friendly puff pieces. Confirming my theory they killed all the reporters from the first batch, everyone’s amazed by this first look at Cam.
UnWholly Ch52-56, Lev, Nelson, Miracolina, Lev
So, last time I said that the Connor and Risa stories seemed to be separate? I forgot that’s how pretty much everything this book works, and now we’re into a Lev and Miracolina stretch. Either the author doesn’t grasp how to move around between stories or he thinks his audience is too stupid to follow it.
Be aware that separate does not, in this case, mean different. Lev and Cam, Risa and Miracolina…it’s all the same.
We’re on the sixth part, though, which means the end is in sight! (more…)
UnWholly Ch57-63 Connor, Trace, Lev, Starkey, Noah, Starkey, Trace
Well, we’re back to this again. Which means we’re also back to fucking Connor.
“Chatter,” Hayden tells Connor. “All kinds of chatter.”
Hayden paces the tight space in Connor ’s jet, hitting his head on the ceiling more than once.
Connor has rarely seen Hayden this agitated. Until now, he always managed to keep the world at smirking distance.
“Is it just on the Tucson police bands, or the juvey bands too?”
“Everywhere,” Hayden tells him. “Radio, e-mails, every communication we can intercept. The analysis programs have us shooting to red alert.”
Okay, so what’s going on here is they JUST FUCKING REALIZED that Connor2 has been burning down houses while screaming it’s revenge for unwinding plz kill us in retribution for two solid weeks now, and only by accident on the way to noticing that everything’s gone crazy suddenly. This happened only because their analysis programs which run through everything noticed that for them, because they’re that unspeakably incompetent. And yet, we’re supposed to believe they caught Risa’s broadcasts right at the start.
UnWholly Ch64-66 Lev, Nelson, Gate Guard
When last we left off, stupidity had led to the kids at the gate firing at Lev.