I think almost all of my problems with this book are nitpicking issues- like how fast did they throw together Sam's funeral? I swear, it reads like he died Saturday night, and was buried by Monday morning. Which I know is *possible* but like... not probable?
I remember also being super excited for Grace's triumphant appearance in the Valley back in the day, but I wanna say it involves a fair amount of retconning. I'm hoping my memory is wrong on this, but we're also 100+ books deep at this point with all the special editions and mysteries, so I'll have to allow for some creative licensing here.
And I think, like Olivia, Nicholas got tapped because he's a bit of an outsider. Well. A lot of an outsider, really. Unlike the other guys in the series, he's not gonna be tied to the disaster going down at the high school and he doesn't have a storyline to speak of, so he's fair game. I was going to say Singled Out was stupidly popular at this point, but this predates that so I guess so much for that theory. I've always wondered why they didn't really lean into the Nicholas/Bruce opposite sides of the same rich coin thing. I guess because Francine always seemed to have a thing for Bruce and if you've already got Nicholas there, there's no need to redeem Bruce and if you don't redeem Bruce you don't get to -redacted because we don't speak of that atrocity-
Point is, also justice for Nicholas?
Margo's willingness to sacrifice Nina, even when part of her did feel a little bad about it, is something that has stuck with me for the last 30 friggin' years, particularly whenever I use a testy toaster. :p
Cackling forever that so many of Bruce's Pamela fantasies involve her trying to serve him food and him being "babe, I'm hungry for you" instead. Also cackling that Bruce is so sure that everyone is a huge tennis fan and thus they'd know him or be jealous of Pamela for that. Truly, the Bruce/Pamela thing either makes me cackle or want to throttle Bruce forever. It is the oddest mix.
Honestly, Jessica's stuff this book is fantastically well done and realistic to her character and reality, which isn't something that can often be said of Jessica plots.
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I remember also being super excited for Grace's triumphant appearance in the Valley back in the day, but I wanna say it involves a fair amount of retconning. I'm hoping my memory is wrong on this, but we're also 100+ books deep at this point with all the special editions and mysteries, so I'll have to allow for some creative licensing here.
And I think, like Olivia, Nicholas got tapped because he's a bit of an outsider. Well. A lot of an outsider, really. Unlike the other guys in the series, he's not gonna be tied to the disaster going down at the high school and he doesn't have a storyline to speak of, so he's fair game. I was going to say Singled Out was stupidly popular at this point, but this predates that so I guess so much for that theory. I've always wondered why they didn't really lean into the Nicholas/Bruce opposite sides of the same rich coin thing. I guess because Francine always seemed to have a thing for Bruce and if you've already got Nicholas there, there's no need to redeem Bruce and if you don't redeem Bruce you don't get to -redacted because we don't speak of that atrocity-
Point is, also justice for Nicholas?
Margo's willingness to sacrifice Nina, even when part of her did feel a little bad about it, is something that has stuck with me for the last 30 friggin' years, particularly whenever I use a testy toaster. :p
Cackling forever that so many of Bruce's Pamela fantasies involve her trying to serve him food and him being "babe, I'm hungry for you" instead. Also cackling that Bruce is so sure that everyone is a huge tennis fan and thus they'd know him or be jealous of Pamela for that. Truly, the Bruce/Pamela thing either makes me cackle or want to throttle Bruce forever. It is the oddest mix.
Honestly, Jessica's stuff this book is fantastically well done and realistic to her character and reality, which isn't something that can often be said of Jessica plots.
Toddles, however, has some 'splainin to do.