/Does Nora’s brain get reset between section breaks or something?/
Well, it certainly gets reset between books.
/organic foods are so mysterious and Vee has no idea what it means/
Because she’s overweight? -_-
/Yes. That’s all she can come up with. “That’s weird”./
Maybe Patch’s horrendous treatment of Nora has so numbed her to terrifying experiences that being locked in a dark room by a stranger seems like a picnic now. Of course, that wouldn’t say good things about Patch, so the remaining conclusions that we can draw are A) Nora is stupid or B) Fitzpatrick is a bad writer.
/Doesn’t that make you feel so bad that he’s dead now?/
No. Why didn’t we get flashbacks like this in the first book? Or earlier in this book?
/She takes advantage of having lost the guy by hiding in a neighborhood that’s charmingly known as “Slaughterville”./
Okay, Ms. Fitzpatrick? Are you writing a paranormal YA romance or a lame slasher film? When your story takes place in a small town in Maine but everything is grim and dark to the point of resembling an apocalyptic dystopia, it just looks like you’re trying too hard.
/Every single frigging place in this series is dangerous, I swear! The beach she frequents? Home to drug dealers. When she goes downtown? She ends up in a bad neighborhood, looking for Vee. When she stops at a motel? It’s a total sleezebucket that apparently has no manager on staff and a pervy guy running the check-in desk./
I seriously wonder if Becca Fitzpatrick is a fan of Frank Miller’s comics, because these characters and this type of setting fit his stories perfectly. Narcissistic and stupid psychopaths who we’re supposed to root for? Check. The setting made out to be much ‘darker’ and ‘grittier’ than it should be just to look edgy and cool? Check. Misogyny? Check. Unrealistic dialogue? Check. No sense of how ridiculous everything is? Check.
/it’s much more important for Those Meddling Kids to go snooping, than to call the authorities and quickly establish what happened, helping them know what to look for at the crime scene, and generally help get things moving more quickly./
Because if the authorities actually got involved and were able to do their jobs, this miserable series would be over because they would lock Patch up.
Well, it certainly gets reset between books.
/organic foods are so mysterious and Vee has no idea what it means/
Because she’s overweight? -_-
/Yes. That’s all she can come up with. “That’s weird”./
Maybe Patch’s horrendous treatment of Nora has so numbed her to terrifying experiences that being locked in a dark room by a stranger seems like a picnic now. Of course, that wouldn’t say good things about Patch, so the remaining conclusions that we can draw are A) Nora is stupid or B) Fitzpatrick is a bad writer.
/Doesn’t that make you feel so bad that he’s dead now?/
No. Why didn’t we get flashbacks like this in the first book? Or earlier in this book?
/She takes advantage of having lost the guy by hiding in a neighborhood that’s charmingly known as “Slaughterville”./
Okay, Ms. Fitzpatrick? Are you writing a paranormal YA romance or a lame slasher film? When your story takes place in a small town in Maine but everything is grim and dark to the point of resembling an apocalyptic dystopia, it just looks like you’re trying too hard.
/Every single frigging place in this series is dangerous, I swear! The beach she frequents? Home to drug dealers. When she goes downtown? She ends up in a bad neighborhood, looking for Vee. When she stops at a motel? It’s a total sleezebucket that apparently has no manager on staff and a pervy guy running the check-in desk./
I seriously wonder if Becca Fitzpatrick is a fan of Frank Miller’s comics, because these characters and this type of setting fit his stories perfectly. Narcissistic and stupid psychopaths who we’re supposed to root for? Check. The setting made out to be much ‘darker’ and ‘grittier’ than it should be just to look edgy and cool? Check. Misogyny? Check. Unrealistic dialogue? Check. No sense of how ridiculous everything is? Check.
/it’s much more important for Those Meddling Kids to go snooping, than to call the authorities and quickly establish what happened, helping them know what to look for at the crime scene, and generally help get things moving more quickly./
Because if the authorities actually got involved and were able to do their jobs, this miserable series would be over because they would lock Patch up.
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