Status Updates From The Bloodwater Mysteries: S...

- Well I guess I spoke too soon because things have majorly escalated in the past 2 or 3 chapters. Yay!
- I just love it when it seems like the mystery is solved and everyone accepts it because it’s convenient and neat but the protagonist keeps thinking about it and makes everything messy again by continuing to pursue the truth.
- Poor Brian almost killed that guy! It’s a good thing Roni told him to go.

- We’re more than halfway through now and looking at this list of suspects we’re nowhere near a conclusion. There’s still so many questions and not any definite answers. Hopefully things fall into place soon because rushed conclusions undermine a good mystery.
- “He never knew what she was going to say next.” That’s right, gotta keep ‘em on their toes. Roni is a pretty unique protagonist!

- I love how short the chapters are. It’s great for the pacing and it makes me feel like I’ve read loads really quickly which is great encouragement.
- This book is very quirky. The two protagonists are outcasts and a bit weird but I quite like how different they are.
- I especially love the unexpected race discussion. Just slipping it in there and normalising Asian-American characters in a 2000s MG book!

A new motif that I saw instead of suffering/pain was identity> I saw identity when we find out Alicia is not really rich but it is just her step father who is rich and they just live off of his money

A motif I found in this book was Suffering/Pain because Alicia who was the girl that got kidnapped was stuck in a boat and in her diary she was saying she was mad and she hates her boyfriend or step dad.

Something that keeps coming up is how the book is going through the point of views of different characters. This pattern of going through the povs of characters is important because it shows what other characters are thinking and doesn't show just one main character.

I noticed that the author for this book was using different chapters for the point of views of different characters like how on the chapter titled lost and found, the author goes into Alicia's pov

I think that it was a good idea to add the bloodwater curse which is that bad things happen to the people that live in the bloodwater house.

The book is talking about how there are multiple people trying to find the person who kidnapped Alicia but they are not talking about suspects in the town except the main characters