Status Updates From Black Trump (Wild Cards, #15)

Jay Ackroyd’s fakeout Jetboy self-sacrifice moment genuinely scariest 2 pages of this whole series. please don’t take the GRRM character writing & leave me here with post-Zelazny-era-cardboard-cutout Croyd, same Hartmann character beat on infinite loop, and impending Zoe/Billy Ray endgame. he can’t die yet, I still have Mark Meadows POVs to power through

Literally impossible to do an impactful reveal or plot twist in this series atp because every 10 pages or so it will be like 'Croyd's back and he's an [cue whichever writer has current custody spinning the Croyd roulette wheel] eight-legged camel now!' and the reaction of any given character is invariably just UGH he is always doing this 🙄

It wouldn't be WILD CARDS if they weren't all tied up in random B-plots, but this is the first book where it's not really clear to me how any of these characters are moving the main plot forward

Being locked into the GRRM extended universe is so fun because why is his proto-Jaime PI character working to stop a global conspiracy together with a character with the same first and last name as Bloodraven's mother from the (extended) Targaryen family tree