2-3-4 Challenge Book Discussions #2 discussion

Connor finds a way to break off the relationship between Lara and Niall. Was this callous on his part or consistent with the goal of the operation? Could he have handled this differently?

It was callous and cruel. He definitely could have handled it better. I think Connor was jealous of how deeply Lara cared for Niall and that's why he was so mean.

I'm with you Anita. Connor was jealous. He didn't have to be so mean, especially since Niall was fake.

Wow! This was a doozy. Suddenly this honest and caring man turns into an adulterous slimeball?!

For a woman who grew up in the political arena of Washington DC, Lara is so naive. Her willingness to accept this 180 in Niall's personality required some serious suspension of disbelief.

It was definitely pretty callous, even for Connor. He could have found another way that wouldn’t have hurt her quite so bad. He made her question every aspect of her judgment.

Lauren wrote: "Wow! This was a doozy. Suddenly this honest and caring man turns into an adulterous slimeball?!

For a woman who grew up in the political arena of Washington DC, Lara is so naive. Her willingness ..."

Lauren we are so on the same wavelenght! I originally thought that she was willing to except this because look how she still had Tom in her life. Clever to the politics but her personal life is another story all together.

I thought that Connor was cruel and could have found a different way to have handled that. But then the more we learnt about him it made sense that he would be jealous of a fictional character that he himself created. The problem of making him so perfect when he wasn't and had a chip on his shoulder about that was that he had no emotional wherewithal to actually have thought further than the mission.

You make a good point, Michelle. Connor had zero experience in how to relate to someone he cared about. He was all over the place with Lara.

Good insight into Connor, Michelle.

Jonetta wrote: "You make a good point, Michelle. Connor had zero experience in how to relate to someone he cared about. He was all over the place with Lara."

I agree, Michelle and Jonetta. Connor had turned off his emotions in order to do his job, so he was struggling with his feelings for Lara. That said, his actions were still unnecessarily cruel.

Oh he was definitely cruel. No doubt about that.

I agree. He was definitely cruel but I understood as he hadn't been in this type of situation before. I agree, Laura, he was really struggling with his feelings for Lara.

This all happen because he sort of fell in, I'm sure he wouldn't have called it love, but let's say lust or something. A somewhat genuine feeling. I wonder if that was really what was behind the cruelty of his actions. His unfamiliarity of having anything not being fake.
Or at least that what the authors were aiming for.

I agree, Michelle. I don't think he knew how to deal with these new feelings he had.