Vision in Silver Part 2
I still feel like i’m having trouble connecting all the parts of the book together and reading and understanding the book fully. This part of the book is interesting now but I feel like the plot and story is moving pretty slow, maybe it’s just me having a hard time really grasping this book. The part where Lizzy wanted to ride the ponies and it drove Meg to her breaking point was crazy to me. I imagined a parent who was annoyed of their kid wanting something and begging and crying and would do anything to make the kid stop whining “too much danger! I have to cut. I have to cut now.” (pg. 225) I just imagine what if a parent was so upset and annoyed of their kid but instead of hurting themselves like Meg does, they hurt the child and I was afraid where this part of the story was going to head with Nathan being there and talking about wanting to bite someone and the smell of the sweet blood. On page 300 when Simon’s relationship is questioned if it’s an experiment or not really stuck out to me. We know how much Meg means to Simon and vise versa and I was thinking at this part if the author put in a plot twist and made Simon say yes, how would it affect the story and change our thoughts of the Others and Simon in general, luckily he says it’s not an experiment which show how much Megs means to him and how he spends time with her because he just likes to be around her.
Looking through other blog posts, I thought I was the only one that thought the plots were moving slowly. There are so many different plots and subplots going on, but instead of a few of them moving quickly and others slower, the author keeps jumping from one subplot to the next, adding small bits of story that slowly progress each one. While that approach may help develop the characters and some of their relationships better, it has brought the novel mostly to a lull, and it seems to me nothing extremely significant has happened in the overall story for a while. I'm hoping that will change in this next section.
ReplyDeleteFunny to see the comment above mine because it looks a lot like my response I had just left on another blog, almost to a T. There are too many major events going on in this book for me to contemplate what is happening, or even think of what is going to happen. Plus, with the book going back and forth throughout the whole novel, it is driving me crazy. I actually liked the book right in the beginning but then as I kept reading more into the novel, I was not interested in it at all, making it hard for me to read the book. The book was said to be fantasy, which I like but it seems it is just a book of mysteries and murder, with no relative to fantasy at all. Yes, there are others but we do not actually read about any kind of things that they do, besides seeing them say our pack or when they make a clever meat joke. My high hopes for the book dropped as soon as I realized it is pretty much nothing like a fantasy book, in my opinion anyways.
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