Mike Foley’s Reviews > Wild Dark Shore > Status Update

Ahhhhh the classic stupid plot device of using emotion instead of logic and letting the dangerous murderer live which backfires of course. Seriously, why are we trying to make the person responsible for all the pain and problems "comfortable"? Why is that a priority over protecting the seeds and other people?

All the problems of this book could be solved by the characters taking 2 minutes to compare instant gratification to long term goals and consequences. Example: their job is to save the seeds to protect the future of multiple entire species. And yet they sacrifice this future to save 2 individuals of a species and Dom literally teaches his kids to give into emotions not logic when tragedy strikes

I can't help but feel there's another message here. Rowan says that she doesn't want kids and society says that she must be broken because she doesn't want kids and calls out society as stupid for expecting her to eventually want kids.....then Rowan essentially adopts a kid so it feels like the moral is society is right and Rowan is wrong and I hate it

Ah yes, only the 9 year old knows enough about the seeds to know which ones to save. I'm so glad the family in charge of this supposed super serious job has delegated appropriately (sarcasm)