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Chelsearoses wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 23:47

Jocelyn Eastman wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 16:27

Chelsearoses wrote: ↑02 Mar 2020, 21:59

Yeah it doesn't read well to try and rush in loose details to try and tie everything up. Then to try and relay it and prep for the next book. I kind of feel if the author would have taken the time to just either add a brief last chapter OR an extra page or 2, the author could have added closure to a couple of things left for closure. And not maybe wait until the next book. Just take the small amount of time to wrap that up. At the very least with the smaller details. And leave the bigger details and cliff hangers for the next books.

I don’t think Carly burnt down the thing because she didn’t care. I really think she did it to evade capture for herself and Adam. Remember, she is in hiding and Adam is too once she discovers he has powers. My biggest problem with the whole thing is her reaction to it. Like...you’re not going to confront him about it at all? You basically tortured Vicky.

Okay yes, that bothered me too. The fact that she really didn't address it or confront him about it. Even at the end before the last scene, something like she's maybe at that location before heading into that facility where they left the girl. Just looking out somewhere, he walks up next to her. She doesn't even look him but calmy tells him or confronts him letting him know, essentially that there are things that have yet to be dealt with. That she saw the den, something to the effect of "There's a lot to be done, with her, with everything...I haven't forgotten Adam what you did to Terry. It wasn't right. And something like that can never happen again.." I don't know just letting him know, acknowledging that maybe small detail for some people. That he needs to keep his mental health and thoughts in check, stay on top that. Get special help for that, because it's not okay. And then maybe transition after leaving him to say nothing or not much, into the last scene that was used. Or maybe something completely different hah. Just acknowleging and confronting him. In some way.

Jocelyn Eastman wrote: ↑06 Mar 2020, 23:35

Chelsearoses wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 23:47

Jocelyn Eastman wrote: ↑03 Mar 2020, 16:27

I don’t think Carly burnt down the thing because she didn’t care. I really think she did it to evade capture for herself and Adam. Remember, she is in hiding and Adam is too once she discovers he has powers. My biggest problem with the whole thing is her reaction to it. Like...you’re not going to confront him about it at all? You basically tortured Vicky.

Okay yes, that bothered me too. The fact that she really didn't address it or confront him about it. Even at the end before the last scene, something like she's maybe at that location before heading into that facility where they left the girl. Just looking out somewhere, he walks up next to her. She doesn't even look him but calmy tells him or confronts him letting him know, essentially that there are things that have yet to be dealt with. That she saw the den, something to the effect of "There's a lot to be done, with her, with everything...I haven't forgotten Adam what you did to Terry. It wasn't right. And something like that can never happen again.." I don't know just letting him know, acknowledging that maybe small detail for some people. That he needs to keep his mental health and thoughts in check, stay on top that. Get special help for that, because it's not okay. And then maybe transition after leaving him to say nothing or not much, into the last scene that was used. Or maybe something completely different hah. Just acknowleging and confronting him. In some way.

Yes! Exactly! Not even an, “It can never happen again.” And then lets him into her super secret community!

amihughson wrote: ↑07 Mar 2020, 18:00 I think you are all making way too much of a plot device. Terry was there to demonstrate Adam's darkness and his struggle against it. Her death was a demonstration of how Adam isn't actually a bad person, but crap happens to him. According to the mechanics of this story, Adam is GENETICALLY different from other people in a way he doesn't understand. He's trying to figure out where he belongs, and with the way his thoughts and feelings are, the only thing he can come up with is "I'm a psychopath". Who wouldn't worry about that?

I agree, Carly being silent about what she knows, even to Adam, might be strange, except she knows exactly "what" they both are and that if any attention is brought to them, they'll end up in a lab full of evil scientists. It is sad, Terry's family will never have closure, but since it isn't important to the story for them to have it, I don't fault the author for handling the situation and wrapping it up as she did.

Jocelyn Eastman wrote: ↑08 Mar 2020, 22:31

amihughson wrote: ↑07 Mar 2020, 18:00 I think you are all making way too much of a plot device. Terry was there to demonstrate Adam's darkness and his struggle against it. Her death was a demonstration of how Adam isn't actually a bad person, but crap happens to him. According to the mechanics of this story, Adam is GENETICALLY different from other people in a way he doesn't understand. He's trying to figure out where he belongs, and with the way his thoughts and feelings are, the only thing he can come up with is "I'm a psychopath". Who wouldn't worry about that?

I agree, Carly being silent about what she knows, even to Adam, might be strange, except she knows exactly "what" they both are and that if any attention is brought to them, they'll end up in a lab full of evil scientists. It is sad, Terry's family will never have closure, but since it isn't important to the story for them to have it, I don't fault the author for handling the situation and wrapping it up as she did.

Do you not think it was dark enough that he was striving to be a sociopath in the book? Or that he was so attracted to his mom, he had a psycho den of pictures?

I can agree that life isn’t fair and that they weren’t going to go to the police with it because they are in hiding. And I guess him trying to make her calm down and decide not to do what he was going to do is there to make us think he’s not AS dark, but at the same time I think at least someone should have had a problem. At least Dauma, who could have seen it in him. Someone!

Ariely 20 wrote: ↑16 Apr 2020, 04:21 Terry's death and the lack of attention given to it by Carly could be because she felt that the deed had already been done and any action on her part would not make up for it.