Is Zia clueless or blinded by lust?
- Sarah Nichols 7
- In It Together VIP
- Posts: 163
- Joined: 11 Jun 2019, 21:24
- Currently Reading: Doctor Sleep
- Bookshelf Size: 32
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-sarah-nichols-7.html
- Latest Review: The Freedom Building by Martin Kendall
Is Zia clueless or blinded by lust?
- emeraldlaurice012
- Posts: 263
- Joined: 28 Jul 2020, 14:24
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 49
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-emeraldlaurice012.html
- Latest Review: Poetic Thoughts of a Young Lion in the Asphalt Jungle by Steven Ederson Sr
-
- Posts: 29
- Joined: 13 Jun 2021, 11:47
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 23
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-ivy-mokote.html
- Latest Review: Beneath the Muscle by Lauren Powers
- Natalie Deer
- Posts: 7
- Joined: 10 Aug 2021, 15:03
- Currently Reading: Surviving the Business of Healthcare
- Bookshelf Size: 33
- Reading Device: B00JG8GOWU
- Muna Chizzy
- Posts: 708
- Joined: 16 Jul 2021, 04:44
- Currently Reading: Gardening With Guns
- Bookshelf Size: 38
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-muna-chizzy.html
- Latest Review: Timewise by Robert Leet
- 6eyed
- Posts: 78
- Joined: 09 Jun 2021, 14:00
- Currently Reading: Pedro Paramo
- Bookshelf Size: 48
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-6eyed.html
- Latest Review: The Vanished by Pejay Bradley
I couldn't say, while reading, if Zia was clueless, but I will say the author does a pretty good job at writing her circumstances to make her cheating a bit sympathetic. She felt undesired by her boyfriend and since she had only talked to her potential lover online, it makes that she'd be willing to overlook the red flags.
- Stephanie Runyon
- Previous Member of the Month
- Posts: 3188
- Joined: 17 Aug 2019, 06:37
- Favorite Book: The Omicron Six
- Currently Reading: Exiles' Escape
- Bookshelf Size: 1667
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-stephanie-runyon.html
- Latest Review: Tarizon: Supreme Mandate by William Manchee
- Reading Device: B07R3HTWLN
- 2024 Reading Goal: 50
- 2024 Goal Completion: 98%
"Don't try to keep up with me, I live on the edge too thin to see." Ryan Upchurch
"See, one man's inconvenience is another's joy." NF
-
- Posts: 14
- Joined: 12 Aug 2021, 16:26
- Currently Reading: Amora
- Bookshelf Size: 12
- 6eyed
- Posts: 78
- Joined: 09 Jun 2021, 14:00
- Currently Reading: Pedro Paramo
- Bookshelf Size: 48
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-6eyed.html
- Latest Review: The Vanished by Pejay Bradley
This is such a great point I couldn't articulate myself! How could she see these red flags as what they were when her own interactions have been nothing but pleasant and validating? I think the reader would have gotten a better sense of this momentum if we had seen Zia's text messages with Bax.oussamaelmajid wrote: ↑13 Aug 2021, 00:35 I honestly think Zia was blinded by the chemicals, that's it, there's nothing but blindness which hijacks her intelligence. Also she developed a certain momentum, hence why she did not stop. Physical momentum govern physical objects, we can draw a similarity in the emotions realm and conclude that there's an emotional momentum which was definitely there and which kept her doing what she was doing.
-
- Posts: 14
- Joined: 30 Jul 2021, 08:14
- Currently Reading: The Ultimate Love
- Bookshelf Size: 11
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-maduike.html
- Latest Review: Firstborn Daddyman by Frank Bailey
- Reading Device: B00I15SB16
-
- Book of the Month Participant
- Posts: 594
- Joined: 02 Jul 2020, 09:53
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 150
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-eunice-geres.html
- Latest Review: I Wonder Why It's Christmas by Esther Ekunola
- DTamara
- Posts: 96
- Joined: 26 Apr 2021, 16:20
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 43
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-dtamara.html
- Latest Review: Of Zots and Xoodles by Zarqnon the Embarrassed
She did it because she knew that if she doesn't entertain him so to speak, he will decide to end her life. It was a no-choice situation, in which she also had to act. When she discovered the key fact, talking with Jazz, she believed it quickly enough. And before she was sure, I suppose you could say she was being naive. It did come quite easily to her though, knowing all those horrible things, it was hard to believe she can keep going with the charade and even enjoy it at some points.SarahJean7 wrote: ↑11 Aug 2021, 14:53 I had a hard time believing that Zia would continue to be with Baxter after all the truly strange coincidences she was discovering about her new lover and the series he was writing. Was she really that dim when it came to seeing him for who he was or did lust make her oblivious?
- Sara chhawniwala
- Posts: 70
- Joined: 22 Apr 2021, 11:11
- Currently Reading:
- Bookshelf Size: 17
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-sara-chhawniwala.html
- Latest Review: Living Abroad: Challenging the Myths of Expat Life by Jim Santos
- Raquel Sojo
- Posts: 506
- Joined: 16 Jun 2021, 16:25
- Currently Reading: Egomaniac
- Bookshelf Size: 410
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-raquel-sojo.html
- Latest Review: The Fisherman and his Foundlings by Phillip Leighton-Daly
- Raquel Sojo
- Posts: 506
- Joined: 16 Jun 2021, 16:25
- Currently Reading: Egomaniac
- Bookshelf Size: 410
- Reviewer Page: onlinebookclub.org/reviews/by-raquel-sojo.html
- Latest Review: The Fisherman and his Foundlings by Phillip Leighton-Daly
This is another reason why I think she was totally blinded. Come on, I don't think clueless, but confident I'm sure she was, and being in an intense relationship, she didn't see anything negative in him at the time.6eyed wrote: ↑12 Aug 2021, 19:10 I felt some frustration at the author for never showing us what was in Baxter's book. I couldn't tell if Zia was being clueless when she watches the news because the author never gives us any excerpts of the book series OR shows us any of Zia and Baxter's texts before they meet. I wouldn't trust Baxter because he gave me loads of red flags, but I sure wish the author would have given us the tools to put ourselves in Zia's shoes. The way the story is written makes it feel like Bax and Zia's relationship is inevitable, and makes the reader either feel like Zia is clueless or like they're missing a part of the story that should have been shared with the reader.
I couldn't say, while reading, if Zia was clueless, but I will say the author does a pretty good job at writing her circumstances to make her cheating a bit sympathetic. She felt undesired by her boyfriend and since she had only talked to her potential lover online, it makes that she'd be willing to overlook the red flags.