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Jack
is 75% done
Quite cynical in comparison to The Twilight Saga, itself an outwardly optimistic but quietly cynical narrative itself.
Meyer loves having her characters visit rich people’s homes and fetishizing the details of wealth.
Are you a big tough guy in a Stephenie Meyer book? Then you call every woman you know by a cringe nickname.
— Jun 20, 2024 09:12AM
Meyer loves having her characters visit rich people’s homes and fetishizing the details of wealth.
Are you a big tough guy in a Stephenie Meyer book? Then you call every woman you know by a cringe nickname.
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Jack
is 50% done
Hoping we don’t spend too much more time in the safe house.
The romance has officially begun. Charming enough despite the fact that she brutally tortured him for information he didn’t have.
I’ve read enough Meyer novels that her frequent use of the word “obviously” is irritating me. She uses it as a very lazy telling not showing word.
Deeply (and fairly) cynical take on the US government here.
— Jun 16, 2024 10:44AM
The romance has officially begun. Charming enough despite the fact that she brutally tortured him for information he didn’t have.
I’ve read enough Meyer novels that her frequent use of the word “obviously” is irritating me. She uses it as a very lazy telling not showing word.
Deeply (and fairly) cynical take on the US government here.
Jack
is 25% done
Notably better pacing in comparison to Meyer’s previous work (so far, anyway). It’s attention-getting, but it’s taken a turn to the distasteful. She’s a professional interrogator. She abducts a hot English teacher suspected of terrorist collaboration. She tortures him…but at some point they’re clearly going to fall in love. Not into the romantic dynamics or (thus far) pro-torture messaging.
— Jun 13, 2024 09:15AM
