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…)
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.
When last we left off, stupidity had led to the kids at the gate firing at Lev.
Well, back to Connor. Connor has just finished arming the “bait” kids, who are sixty rather than fifty but oddly don’t get so much of a mention of how more kids than required are apparently willing to sacrifice themselves for the others. (more…)
Now time to see how the goblins and their king are doing. (more…)
Anyway, remember Risa? Who gave herself up to protect her friends? Who are basically all dead now? The dressing room she’s waiting before her next interview has a TV, and what just happened is all over the news. (more…)
Well! Summer is over and I can get back to doing stuff. Wonderful!
Now I get to…go back to this awful book.
…As I said months back, we are at least in the home stretch here. We’re now entering Part 7 – Landings. And we get two quotes! (more…)
Having finished with the Goblin King and Trace, it’s time to finish our roundup of characters with names.
We last saw Miracolina get shot with tranquilizer yet again, and Lev asked a kid to help her, and the kid agreed while internally screaming FUCK THIS EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF because this is not a book where people without names get any sympathy.
Miracolina’s head is spinning as she awakes. That’s how she knows she’s been tranq’d. This is the fourth time she’s been tranq’d—she knows the drill by now.
It is ridiculous, isn’t it?