Status Updates From Program MIRA

The banter between Wynter and the boys is one of the best parts about this book! I have already laughed out loud a few times while reading.

[Ah, it’s still just a computer, Wyn.” Tyson said. “It’s only as smart as the people giving it orders.]

Oh good lord no

Is division 1812 a farce? Why were there ONLY the five stolen kids and Dyanna?? You’re telling me that no one worked the Apple orchards before these kids and dyanna?

Lmao, Dyanna’s reasons for lying are not only stupid but also dangerous to the kids. Ugh. This book. ಠ_ಠ

Definite typo - submit to publisher
[And for the first time since Wynter had seen Estrella, fear laced al of her features.]

Typo?
[They have breaching our security!]

[Wynter’s heart pounded and she quietly prayed that no one would need paper from this closet.]

Ah, yes. A society with the technology of sentient AI, but a meeting would still rely on paper? Anachronisms on anachronisms in this book.

[Next to the fake-Wynter in the box, a screen displayed a subway wreck. Chrys’s heart clenched at the destruction. The date was seventeen years ago.]

This further supports my timeline; that twice it was said “16 years ago” when it was actually 13.

[Chrys furrowed his brow. “The Coterie is the government here, right?” He asked Tyson in a hushed voice.]

Oh good gravy. 🤦‍♀️ there is no way he didn’t know that. There’s no genuine way he would actually ask this question.

[“They’re proud of the name: MIRA. It’s somewhere in every room, and it’s on pretty much every label. Makes sense that it’d be the password too. Easy to remember for workers.”]

This is just like Estrella's password being 'Estrella.Black'. Like, come on. It really and truly wouldn't be that easy or straightforward. These are paranoid, secretive coders. This just isn't realistic.

[”So to remove Estrella is to also lose Sorren, a move that The Cotrie, nor the people of Dyvercity, are willing to make at this time—“
Aidric lost interest and moved on. He didn’t care about Dyvercity gossip. Everyone here left the poor divisions alone unless they needed something, so half of this gossip didn’t pertain to them anyways.]
Um, except it directly does. So much for that intelligence (yet again)

[In a recent speech, she seemed to imply that Sorren had made himself mentally unstable, obsessing over the daughter that was legally pronounced “dead” thirteen years ago.]

*Michael Scott ‘thank you’ gif here*
See?? THIRTEEN. Not 16.

I can’t even get two paragraphs without another ridiculous thing. [“I figured we might be with so much information. I didn’t want to get too close to the door with the mod I made for the other door and it accidentally open before we were ready.” Tyson replied without looking up. Aidric sighed, that was Tyson for you…]
Why didn’t the boys ask what he meant? T let them believe they had opened the 1st door.

[He had tried to teach them when he first learned what the devices could do, but they couldn’t understand it on the same level as him.]

Again, where is this mega intelligence these kids are supposed to have?! And where is the consistency in what they understand? They’re clueless when it’s convenient, and competent when it’s not.

[Chrys was still young, only sixteen like Wynter.]
This confirms what I was saying before. She disappeared *13* years ago and is now 16 years old.

Why didn't they kill or kidnap C, and why didn't C follow W?

[But that was the cool thing about friends, once you picked them and developed that bond, you were closer than a family could ever be.]

lmao no

[D300 looked like a town with nearly ten houses clustered together like a tiny city surrounded by the wheat fields]
like a tiny town and like a tiny city in the same sentence. poor writing

[I am not able to calculate a time period because of my lack of access to human activity beyond this building.]

What?!?! *facepalm*

[...and even sixteen years after your disappearance, she is still overshadowed by you.]

Again, thirteen* years later, not sixteen

[Wynter froze, so this MIRA person wasn’t completely in agreement with Estrella, but she still worked with her. That made no sense.]

Ah, yes. Because folks only work together if they agree completely.. What happened to Wynter's purported intelligence?

[“There? Is that better?” The voice asked much quieter and Wynter opened her eyes again. She nodded once.] I was confused when I read that because I thought she couldn't move her head thanks to the forehead and chin straps, but guessed I misunderstood. Then a couple paragraphs later: [Wynter tried to nod, but when her head still wouldn’t budge, she quietly whispered, “Yes”.]