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Lol, this is definitely something I would do… well at least you aren’t planning to read the books haha. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. Because I’m truly pissed to see how Pip acts out of her character, how the entire progression takes a dark and unexpected turn and how things start to fall like dominoes!
Pip during most of this has retreated into herself, similar to the way Naomi did after they took Sal’s alibi away from him but given the groundwork they have set I have a feeling they are going to get away with it after all but this night has left invisible scars on Pip that are never going to go away. in the beginning, i found it to be childish how he started a fight with max given that he was a grown ass adult and max was still growing. he already has been through so much for Pip from rehashing the trauma from his brothers murder to helping her through the case of Child Brunswick in the previous book.Pip heads over to Max’s house, covering the cameras and having the drugs needed to knock Max out ready with her and Nat is going to be her distraction for it all but there is still a small chance that it might not work and something might go wrong which means Pip would end up in prison for the rest of her life. In this book, she is angry and traumatized, and has turned into my least-favorite trope of all time: a pill-popping, freaking out, paranoid, therapy-is-not-for-me female narrator. As we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, Pip now genuinely believes that she has a stalker but her parents don’t see the connections that she is seeing blaming the drawings and birds on the local cats and children, Ravi is the only one that believes her and encourages her to go to DI Hawkins even though she doesn’t remotely trust the police anymore. He does his villain monologue and confesses to killing Pip’s dog way back in the first book (mwahahahhahaa! I get that she thought no one would believe her over some respectable white guy, that he might not even have been arrested.
If Pip really cared about Ravi she would break up with him and ask him to move on because she is dangerous. Instead; the detective told her to have therapy; he says it’s normal to see things after passing through a trauma like hers. Ravi is a bit harder to justify, but if you look at all the trauma he went through when his brother was falsely accused, it’s not hard to see where the distrust in cops comes from.I was also completely on edge reading the scenes where he was near, such as the later stick figure scenes, Pip’s speakers sounding in the middle of the night and the printer going off as well.
And whenever I’m feeling nervous about anything, I always think to myself, what would Pip do in this situation? Pip has changed understandable considering what she has been thought but I feel she made decisions that pip won't in the first two books. No, not a lead, a lifeline: some strange unknowable force connecting them across time, though they’d never met.The courage Jackson had to subvert the conventions of the detective fiction – we should be courageous even if in this case, it really did not work for me. I am not a big fan of an open ending, though it is made known that it ends as to how we would want it to be. I don’t know if the author intended these parallels to happen but it was incredibly infuriating to read when the situation hit a little too close to home for Ravi.
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