Status Updates From The Dogs of War

Okay so the last 20% has been pretty good and I like Jackson now and the voices are really starting to settle in my head so maybe it’ll be 4 stars after all

Ooooooo spies? Things are getting very interesting now

Alll right all right Jackson is growing on me…

Does Crispin ever get called Crispy some times?

This scene should be from Atlas’s pov, NOT Blaise and should have been so much earlierrrrr

All right Lichenville Orcas got a laugh outta me

Okay over a quarter in, my thoughts:
* I need Blaise to shut up bc his POv is an interruption
* Luke’s POV could have been accomplished with a character watching a TV recording
* Atlas would have been a much more compelling protagonist
* I literally do not care if Remus lives or dies
* Jackson is sorta growing on me but not much he still feels very one dimensional

I feel like Atlas should have been the MC. ONLY Atlas and Jackson, at most. We have NO need to see Remus or Blaise or Luke’s POV. Like Atlas and Jackson would have been a good duo and I probably would care more about Jackson that way. As it is things feel so scattered I don’t have anything to anchor me into the story

These characters all talk so… weird. I can’t put my finger on it. It’s like the author is trying to make them sound fancy but they’re not fancy guys so their dialogue is disjointed with the mental image

WHY ARE WE BACK TO BLAISE AGAIN?!!!

“ I still have red blood pounding in my veins for every match,”
Jackson, buddy, blood is oNLY red, what color do you think it would be

I think these characters have a vendetta against using contractions 🤣

Ooh a wedding noice noice noice (although I thought Lucia was like an older sister or something first so….)

WHAT REMUS HAS A BROTHER
WHEN WERE WE GONNA HEAR ABOUT THIS???

See I thought all these guys were teenagers but no they’re… adults?

This book feels like I’m sitting on a moving couch, looking through a window at a movie but as soon as I start maybe getting close to caring about the characters I get yanked off to a different pov and start the process all over again. It’s very annoying.
Unless something happens to show me why I should actually care about Remus and Jackson… might be a 3 star review guys

LUKE IS MARRIED WHAT

Luke has a beard what
I thought he was a teenager

Did Luke die or something? Is that why we’re not hearing anything from him??? What the heck happened and why are we in Blaise’s head what purpose does he serve

I feel sorry for Blaise. No boy should have a name like that

I don’t get it. I’m so confused. Like… ??? Why does Mark hate Jackson? Like there’s no reasoning to anything the characters do. It just gets thrown at us and we continue to get dragged along by a different character’s POV. AND WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED TO LUKE??!!!

“Would there be room at Iron City for me?”
Remus sir you were JUST slamming them what the heck—-

Okay now I’m just mad. Bc I checked the table of contents and WHAT THE HECK WHY DOES LUKE ONLY HAVE ONE CHAPTER THATS NOT FAIR! I DON’T CARE ABOUT REMUS AND JACKSON I WANTED MORE LUKE WHAT THE HECK WAS THE POINT OF EVEN GIVING US HIS CHAPTER—-

Sir how is it 8 chapters and I only get one Luke snippet come onnnn I don’t care about Jackson and Remus

I’m trying not to get irritated but I don’t like Jackson and Remus’s character voices, they sound the same and they’re inconsistent… maybe it’ll get better…

I wish the first three chapters were a littllleee longer. So far the only one I care about is Philip, and I thought Golden Boy in chapter one was gonna be the only pov. How many are there? Six? Idk but there are a lot and I’m confused

Also is it all boys and if so why. Like is it like… hunger games and The Maze Runners mooshed up
Hmmmmmm
HMMMM

Remus is a bit wordy for my tastes, hmm…

Why am I getting Outsiders vibes