but while Hardy killing Clate would make sense in that context, Theo's thing doesn't really.
Yeah, Clate's death is actually a perfect thematic fit for the rest of the book, while Theo's murder spree is just kind of ... there, like it needed one more rewrite to make it click into place. (Also, this makes me realize that with everything else going on, I completely forgot that Letha saw a guy diced into pieces in her boat propeller! How is she still so normal after all of this? I think that's part of what makes her feel more like a movie character than a real person, unlike everyone else.)
I wonder if maybe Stacey particularly targeted Theo Mondragon for corruption/influence because he was sort of the unofficial leader of Terra Nova and therefore representative of everything that was currently angering her the most?
I could definitely see this, but I could see it more if we'd seen Stacey otherwise being able to influence people directly. (She *does* seem to have done something to Greyson, but it's also possible he just lost his mind from being stuck in a cursed hole with a jawless dead girl.) I had assumed early on that some kind of murder contagion was what was happening, but all of that turned out to be attributable to other causes ... except for Theo.
It does make me wonder if there's more explanation for the less well explained parts of this book coming up in the sequel. It's possible some of the mysteries were never explained because they're going to be later.
I also just realized that "Shooting Glasses" apparently spent an entire day hiding out in Terra Nova, possibly in the LAKE, with his back full of nails without ever managing to slip away and go for help, which also doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially since we now know that he can swim across the entire lake carrying two kids. Why didn't he just swim across in the daytime and report Theo for murder?
Side-note: those poor Dutch kids! They had no way of knowing what they were getting into!
Boy, did those kids pick the wrong lake to swim in.
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Yeah, Clate's death is actually a perfect thematic fit for the rest of the book, while Theo's murder spree is just kind of ... there, like it needed one more rewrite to make it click into place. (Also, this makes me realize that with everything else going on, I completely forgot that Letha saw a guy diced into pieces in her boat propeller! How is she still so normal after all of this? I think that's part of what makes her feel more like a movie character than a real person, unlike everyone else.)
I wonder if maybe Stacey particularly targeted Theo Mondragon for corruption/influence because he was sort of the unofficial leader of Terra Nova and therefore representative of everything that was currently angering her the most?
I could definitely see this, but I could see it more if we'd seen Stacey otherwise being able to influence people directly. (She *does* seem to have done something to Greyson, but it's also possible he just lost his mind from being stuck in a cursed hole with a jawless dead girl.) I had assumed early on that some kind of murder contagion was what was happening, but all of that turned out to be attributable to other causes ... except for Theo.
It does make me wonder if there's more explanation for the less well explained parts of this book coming up in the sequel. It's possible some of the mysteries were never explained because they're going to be later.
I also just realized that "Shooting Glasses" apparently spent an entire day hiding out in Terra Nova, possibly in the LAKE, with his back full of nails without ever managing to slip away and go for help, which also doesn't make a whole lot of sense, especially since we now know that he can swim across the entire lake carrying two kids. Why didn't he just swim across in the daytime and report Theo for murder?
Side-note: those poor Dutch kids! They had no way of knowing what they were getting into!
Boy, did those kids pick the wrong lake to swim in.