Rob The Reader’s Reviews > Jade Fall > Status Update

Funny line:

“What?” Lauren almost screamed at Sara, spinning around to face her. “What did you think was going to happen here? I let him go, and he reforms his ways. Maybe, settle down with a missus fish monster and have little fishy babies and a white picket fence here in hell’s flooded basement!”

Also Lauren appears to be growing more ruthless

Aww I wanted more of this Kaiju fight between Leviathan and Cheetenoose. One paragraph is robbery.

Cool development!

her irises had transformed into an unnaturally bright silver, her pupils reformed into a peculiar diamond shape. Unlike the slits of a cat’s eye—Lauren’s pupils retained a rigid diamond shape as they expanded and collapsed into crosses when they contracted

The progenitor as a character had potential but the execution wasn't quite pulled off. The slight missteps here land a wrong note, but thankfully it doesn't last long.

I liked this moment with the jade ghosts.

They glided silently around, just under the water, giving the lake a look of having globes of glowing green light, meandering off in the distance.

From a storytelling and psychological perspective, the chapter where Lauren meets the 'monster' in the cherry blossom stream is by far the most interesting character work Lauren has displayed.

Lunar is a most unexpected character in this book but I found him refreshing compared to Lauren. I hope we see more of him.

Following the whirlpool sequence, which was pretty cool, I found this great line.

“Lad, why must you emotionally assassinate us every time we catch a break?” Jack asked.

The humour doesn't always work but every now and them there's a line that sparkles.

That sequence with the Pool abomination was tense and exciting!

Hahahaha I love this sequence!

In fact, more fleshy stalks noisily erupted from the thing’s open skull, made from what used to be brains, topped with even more vicious-looking lamprey mouths... “We here at Hydro World apologize for this inconvenience,” the Leviathan system said in oblivious sincere ton