Bloody Good Horror discussion

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SPOILERS!!!

Okay - I just finished this and I LOVED it. Totally obsessed, couldn't put it down. A major disappointment fell upon me in Alistair's afterward, when he includes the excerpt from di Stefano's book. Please follow along with me:

"As I knelt on that dirty floor in the middle of the hotel boiler room, I tried not to let the TV cameras affect my ritual. I commanded myself to focus only on the spirit of Mr. Jack Sparks, whose soul I believed to have been kidnapped by that execrable fiend Satan and imprisoned here."

Jack picked up this book in the Rome airport AFTER he saw the Video. He started reading it on the plane & freaked out. Therefore, how could he have not almost immediately put two & two together here? In his desperate search to uncover information about the video, he forgot all about the passage in di Stefano's book that pretty much explained it?? Would that not have been something that sticks with you?

However, who's to say that's the entire passage about Jack in The Devil's Victims. I don't think Arnopp ever says if Jack had read the whole chapter, he could have been too freaked out to get to the passage above.

ALSO - Alistair says the flight attendant he interviewed could not have spoken to Jack on the plane, even though she insisted it was him. Her account essentially corroborates Jack being alive on the plane, and same thing with Father di Stefano when he says he saw Jack's spirit flying "back in time."

I'm getting ahead of myself here. I just want to know what others think about the passage I included here and the fact that Jack could have connected a lot of dots much quicker. Does that stick out to anyone else? Jack could have read the whole chapter! And then he would have had significantly more clues earlier on. Maybe the passage Alistair chose from di Stefano should have been different - maybe not mentioned the boiler room at all, or specified that this wasn't the beginning of the chapter or something like that. Would love some other opinions on this!!

Realize you posted this months ago but I'm awful at keeping up on Good Reads. I literally picked up on none of this in the book haha. it's a good catch though and I've got to imagine there's some sort of reason for the timeline slips. seems weird that it would just be sloppy writing and no one caught it.