We’re
already about halfway through this book since we began this week (I’m on page
250) and I already am getting a sense of disappointment out of this book. See
if this week wasn’t abnormal with pickups for my family, I did have a big fat
theater thing due and I didn’t get sucked into Another or Kill la Kill (Another is the worse of the two, let me
tell you that; people slipping down stairs and impaling their necks with umbrellas)
I might have finished this book and have been able to write a review concerning
all of my feeling; since I failed to do so, let me dish out the strongest, most
significant one right now so I don’t have to talk about its abomination in the
review.
Sidonia
sucks. She’s the innocent sweet little lamb that’s about to get sacrificed by
Kincaid to better character development but it sure as heck took a long time
for her to die. And spoiler alert, (because I wanted to see what type of hell
hole I was digging myself into) she’s not dead. Son of a Shakespeare Sidonia, I
detest your character so just die. It her specific character type that I’m not
a fan of: the weak and innocent that screws everything up but is still a big component
to the plot/protagonist. Innocent/sweet character are good, they balance out
all the super fierce and brave characters. The problem is the sweetness is too
high a concentration in her character, so I don’t care about her and you can
pretty much tell super early on she’s
going to die for character development. So when you have this character that’s
too sweet and is going to die I’m not going to get attached to her (her
background development was also minimal and I can’t see her as anything other
than a plot device) so yes, I don’t give jack for Sidonia.
Sidonia's one
redeeming quality: being a plot device. Sidonia is there to make Nemesis care
at first (check), she forces her into a new and dangerous environment (check),
she’s there to leave her behind and absolutely crushed about the one thing
precious to her being obliterated (check), she’s there to creates a down moment
and sadly lead into the romance (check), and her demise is to eventually lead
Nemesis to discovering a new purpose in remembrance of her name (check). The
she freaking comes back to life. *Makes exaggerated disgust face.* Use your
plot devices correctly Kincaid, I know I might be one of a kind on my disgust
to Sidonia, but don’t kill someone to make character development and then bring
back for more character development and a chance to destroy your main character
twice and have a plot twist. Only do that in anime Kincaid (that doesn’t make
sense on a regular basis so it’s okay to do something nonsensical), and what I
have in front of me is not anime or
even anime in any way.
But I digress, I’ll enjoy the book
until Sidonia comes back and the romance gets intense, but so far her existence
has been my greatest grievance. One other thing, if you’re going to kill off so
many characters would you please kill them creatively? Don’t just have people
get stabbed and torn up limb for limb or blown up; have them get crushed in
elevators, die of heart attacks, stab themselves (in the neck) out of insanity,
or even be out swimming and get run over by a boat so their body gets chopped
up into several pieces. There are so many safe things in the world that you can
use to kill people with so if characters are going to drop like flies make it interesting
and scar some people for life while you’re at it (like me, whose scared of stairs
and umbrellas) so I can actually care more about this book. I apologize if that
sounds callous of me, but this is what I get for cutting myself off from people
a lot and watching Another yesterday
(scarred for life I tell you). Aside from that, see you in the review hopefully
next week!
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