and what i mean by that is that even if he was in a scene, he didn't feel like he was really in the scene, if that makes sense. noah felt like a decently developed character in the first book, but he was hardly present in this book. I think the side characters really took a back seat in this novel. the ending was, i guess, a plot twist, so i feel like ally carter is making it a pattern to end these books with huge reveals. the plot feels like a cycle of angsty internal conflict in the landscape of a troubled teenage mind put on loop with the occasional twist or turn. The dramatic plot, on the other hand, i'm okay with. i could really do without the exasperatingly dramatic lines. I step farther into the room, but Jamie just keeps folding and refolding clothes, trying to bring order to our messy world. Noah yells, but I am running down the beach like there is no looking back. A better question might be what's right? Literally, this is repeated again, nearly verbatim in: i suppose she succeeds, but one large hindrance in the story is the repetitive narrative and the unnecessarily dramatic lines that pop up on every few pages.Įxamples of unnecessarily melodramatic lines: And so the plot thickens! ally carter is really taking the effort to make this a plot-driven and at times unexpectedly dark series.
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