Crescendo: Chapter 15 (Part 2)

[zelda_queen]

ZeldaQueen: Time to continue with this insanity, as we watch Nora try (and fail) to logic her way through things.

As a note - because of length issues, I had to move the start of this sporking to the end of Part 1 here. If you read Part 1 before this, please, please go back and read the end of it again.

Comments

[carakasla]

Serious...I've always been a bit hesitant about writing outlines but this after finding out Fitzpatrick used outlines for this book I really think I don't even want to use one. Yes, I'm fully aware I definitely would do a better job but still.

I really don't know what else to say to this because it's so dumb.

[aikaterini]

/Why go for the one that also tends to be portrayed as sleazy

[zelda_queen]

"Because Vee’s not really a character. She’s a plot device

[aikaterini]

/it will turn out that Patch hates Marcie and goes on about how he found her insufferable and only hung around with her because the archangels MADE him./

*flatly* Oh, yeah, he totally didn’t enjoy making out with the cheerleader stereotype with no strings attached. “Oh, no, baby, it was only because the archangels MADE me. I was forced to ram my tongue down her throat, you see! That’s why it’s totally okay that I punched Scott in the face for daring to make the moves on you. The archangels didn’t make him do it! They put me under a spell, you see, which made me do things against my will and - oh... Yeah, you’re right...that does kind of sound like what I did to you in the last book.”

/then still kills her off off-page/

*sighs* Why am I not surprised that the psychotic stalker who tried to kill Nora gets to live, while the teenage girl whose worst crime was making fun of Nora and wearing skimpy clothes is killed off?

[anonymous]

she wants to take the higher moral ground.

I think that ship sailed when she stole the damn thing in the first place.

We get the usual fanservicy description of how he's all gangly with a hawk-like nose and a “shag” of inky-black hair

Maybe it's just a matter of personal taste, but that sounds kind of ugly to me.

That's great, Vee. Force two people into a conversation they don't want to have, then don't even bother sticking around for it yourself. Truly, you're a wonderful friend.

Can't I just smack Vee with a Dark Visitor spell and take her out?

why was Nora not given a guardian in the first book, when she had both Patch, Dabria, Elliot, and Jules trying to kill her?! Did the angels have their headphones on and not notice?!?

Reminds me of a certain infamous sequence in Metroid: Other M where the most charitable explanation was that mission control fell asleep at the desk. Incidentally, certain parts of that game have been compared to this book, and not favorably either.

She was seriously tempted to go on the run with the guy

[anonymous]

Did you count 86 twice?

[zelda_queen]

I did, thank you. ^^; Fixed!

[lady_fofa]

In the upcoming books, we're going to see that they're totally useless about stopping a Nephilim uprising, to the point where they're forced to rely on Nora to stop it for them.

Are you serious? Nora is the kind of person I wouldn't trust with opening a can of sardines that was already open.

Here, have the rest of my two-bite brownies.

[lady_fofa]

Now that's a more genuine and touching sacrifice than anything in this series.

[zelda_queen]

Yes, seriously. The situation is incredibly contrived, and basically the Nephilim army's leader thought it would be better to make Nora immortal and put her in charge in the event of his death (even though Nora has no experience and makes it quite clear she hates the guy and wants nothing to do with the army) than to try to make his own kid (who actually loves him but is ostensibly sickly and going to die any day now) well enough to take over