I always forget how doofy he looks running away while Jessica lies there in the most un-Jessica like outfit I've ever seen and one lone stocking hangs on for dear life, just so it can look kinda cool on the cover.
I'd also forgotten just how much of this book is simply setting up the cheerleading arc. Ken/Jessica! Seriously, Ken crushing on Jessica is the sweetest thing and I will die on the hill that Ken is a good egg and any ghosty who writes him otherwise should be dealt with harshly.
And this is the book that has the whole arc earmarked in my memory as the one where my friends were scandalized that they discussed Jessica and someone having sex. Y'know, without actually saying it. I'd begun to think I'd imagined the whole damn thing and was wondering if maybe I'd lost my marbles.
I'm pretty sure Jessica has had some hot and heavy relationships, including Tragically Dead Sam I'm pretty sure there's a whole subplot where she's so worried that she and Sam can't be trusted alone together that she asks Liz about how she and Todd handle it and then Jess overcompensates because of course she does. So yeah, having this loser get this much fanfare is just... odd and weird and gross.
Retcon!Robby is still weird though it has good intentions (namely separating Robby from creepy Jeremy), but I actually like the idea that Jeremy had the whole Jessica romance setup from the start. It makes him even worse because each book does seem to be trying to top the last in terms of how bad he can be, but him bonking her on the head with a Frisbee, kissing her and then running off knowing that'll be catnip to her based on Alice's years of correspondence tracks. I mean as much as anything in this arc does track. Sue still comes off pretty terribly with this, but she makes babysteps in not wanting Jessica to waste her first time on an absolute creep who does not care about her at all.
Part of me thinks it's insane that Jeremy would carry around that article and part of me thinks dude has a shrine to his fuckery somewhere so why the hell not. Jessica immediately pretending to be a cop to get info from his previous wife was perfection.
Detective Sam is dragging the name down. You're in a car with two people who know the way to the cabin. Sure, try and keep the creep in sight but there's no reason she should've gotten lost on the way there beyond plot contrivance. *rolls eyes out of skull*
RetconRobby is at it again as I swear that previous books mentioned that Lila had SEEN his other paintings for the show, so having her panic that he's got nothing is just weird. Did I make that up in my cold induced haze?
Coughing/cackling/wheezing at the thought of Jessica shaking off smoke inhalation to try and hit the dance because that's so Jessica it hurts.
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I'd also forgotten just how much of this book is simply setting up the cheerleading arc. Ken/Jessica! Seriously, Ken crushing on Jessica is the sweetest thing and I will die on the hill that Ken is a good egg and any ghosty who writes him otherwise should be dealt with harshly.
And this is the book that has the whole arc earmarked in my memory as the one where my friends were scandalized that they discussed Jessica and someone having sex. Y'know, without actually saying it. I'd begun to think I'd imagined the whole damn thing and was wondering if maybe I'd lost my marbles.
I'm pretty sure Jessica has had some hot and heavy relationships, including Tragically Dead Sam
I'm pretty sure there's a whole subplot where she's so worried that she and Sam can't be trusted alone together that she asks Liz about how she and Todd handle it and then Jess overcompensates because of course she does. So yeah, having this loser get this much fanfare is just... odd and weird and gross.
Retcon!Robby is still weird though it has good intentions (namely separating Robby from creepy Jeremy), but I actually like the idea that Jeremy had the whole Jessica romance setup from the start. It makes him even worse because each book does seem to be trying to top the last in terms of how bad he can be, but him bonking her on the head with a Frisbee, kissing her and then running off knowing that'll be catnip to her based on Alice's years of correspondence tracks. I mean as much as anything in this arc does track. Sue still comes off pretty terribly with this, but she makes babysteps in not wanting Jessica to waste her first time on an absolute creep who does not care about her at all.
Part of me thinks it's insane that Jeremy would carry around that article and part of me thinks dude has a shrine to his fuckery somewhere so why the hell not. Jessica immediately pretending to be a cop to get info from his previous wife was perfection.
Detective Sam is dragging the name down. You're in a car with two people who know the way to the cabin. Sure, try and keep the creep in sight but there's no reason she should've gotten lost on the way there beyond plot contrivance. *rolls eyes out of skull*
RetconRobby is at it again as I swear that previous books mentioned that Lila had SEEN his other paintings for the show, so having her panic that he's got nothing is just weird. Did I make that up in my cold induced haze?
Coughing/cackling/wheezing at the thought of Jessica shaking off smoke inhalation to try and hit the dance because that's so Jessica it hurts.