Jerry Aguirre’s Reviews > Storm Warning > Status Update

Lore drop: Gideon and Olivia Cahill had four children. Gideon created a cure for the plague, but became a serum that altered all the DNA of those who took it. He gave a part of the serum to each child. He then dies in a fire and each child thinks it was the other. For centuries, the branches have been trying to find the clues, and every time they’re close the Madrigal‘s stop them.

Holy smokes. I can’t even imagine what Nellie was feeling seeing her kids be SO afraid of her that they’re crying. She is tough. But man that’s heartbreaking. They decide to quit the clue hunt after Lester’s death, but this happened. The man in black, or in gray, which is weird the book changed it but whatever.

They talked about this earlier in the book but I barely understood it now like a slow sloth. McIntyre tells the other groups where they are, which is WHY THEY ALWAYS have someone on their trail. But why?!

When I reread the book 6, i need to see if Isabel has a bracelet.

So Nellie is Jamaican. And she is part of the family that were in charge of keeping care of the earrings.

What a revelation! Grace is a mastermind. She hired Nellie on purpose. She had her eyes on her before she was born. Grace was following the ring that was being passed down and she knew it’ll eventually end up in a descendant. So that means that Grace probably paid for Nellie’s languages, pilot license, and has been grooming her since birth for the clues. What does this mean for Nellie and her life?

So it’s finally here. Nellie was hired by Grace and preempted to what was going to happen (but now preempted enough). Now, she gets paid by William McIntryre for status reports.

The intro makes sense why the branches are always trying to find clues and can never fully create the serum. They have their vial of 9-10 ingredients. But the rest of the ingredients is what they try to find. Which is why throughout the series, the branches already had clues, knew of clues, or knew what they were missing.