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Category Archives: Midnight Sun
Maximum Ride Chapters 35 & 36
You know what I love in stories? When a character, or the author, offers the audience a contradiction and the editor doesn’t call them on it. It gives me a boost in my faith of the publishing industry, it really … Continue reading
Posted in Midnight Sun, Recap
Tagged Dull Details, What Mistake?, Where'd that come from?
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Midnight Sun Chapter 12 Part 2
If you couldn’t tell, this chapter was so boring I fell asleep. I was literally nodding off while my fingers danced over the keyboard in autopilot. When I woke up and looked it over before posting I was amazed there … Continue reading
Midnight Sun Chapter 12 Part 1
This is the last chapter for the unfinished manuscript. After this I’ll have Otis’s body of work taken care of, at least for awhile. And then it’s onto a side project while we await the fourth of the Eragon books, … Continue reading
Midnight Sun Chapter 11 Part 2
After Ed parks the car, he proceeds to tell Bella, aw, what rotten luck that we’ve run out of gas. Whatever will they do in the meantime? Then he rips open her throat and drinks the sweet nectar that bursts … Continue reading
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Tagged Continuity is for Losers, Control is love, Too dumb to live
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Midnight Sun Chapter 11 Part 1
Yes, this is chapter eleven because Otis can’t count. What exactly is the problem, Otis? How can you forget what chapter you’re currently on? You know you can always glance over your previous drivel and check, right? It’s a good … Continue reading
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Tagged Control is love, Me am in Charge, Too dumb to live
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Midnight Sun Chapter 9(again) Part 2
So Ed wants to know how Bella got Jake talking about things which are forbidden. Bella says she flirted with him and demonstrates for Ed. Ed tells us she couldn’t possibly be more beautiful but he doesn’t let this come … Continue reading
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Tagged Ed is just better, Oh Mary Sue how I hate you, Talk talk talk
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Midnight Sun Chapter 9(again) Part 1
Yes, someone screwed up. I went back to the beginning of the last chapter and looked and it’s a nine. Not an eight that didn’t scan quite right but an actual nine just like this chapter is also nine. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Oh Mary Sue how I hate you, Talk talk talk, Too dumb to live
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Midnight Sun Chapter 9 Part 3
I’m sorry I’m taking so long with these but really, I think this deserves close inspection. So they sit there at the restaurant, god I hate repeating that, give us a damned name Otis! Ed tells Bella that he expects … Continue reading
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Tagged As boring as the back of a shampoo bottle, Sad Panda, The Regular People
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Midnight Sun Chapter 9 Part 2
Bella jumps into car without thinking and Ed is still mad he can’t kill people indiscriminately in front of her. They leave the would be rapists/murderers/suprise makeover specialists stand there and watch the car drive off. Presumably while shaking their … Continue reading
Midnight Sun Chapter 9 Part 1
Part of why I hate these stories, they probably don’t deserve the title of book, are the changes to Otis’s vampires. Not because she changed them in general, fictional vampires have been evolving as a meme since Stoker. But because … Continue reading
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Tagged Killing in the Name of, Oh Mary Sue how I hate you, The plot thins
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