Every time I try to start this post I get lost in all of the many angles there are to look at the scene where Harrow and Gideon have their huge fight. With how much fun I have with the characters, I think sometimes I overlook that the writing for this series is really quite good. Examining a single thread yanks a bunch more around with it, and before you know it, the best way to tell the story is just shoving the book in front of someone.
Gideon and Harrow’s fallout pre-corpse discovery and pool scene zooms from poor love triangle coping skills to dead teenagers to self-loathing to the omnipresent question of what they are to each other to the refusal to acknowledge that it’s a question at all.
It also generally hurts.
This train wreck kicks off with Harrow attempting to protect Gideon by keeping her away from someone who is piloting a dead body around – aka being sus af. It could almost be called civil.
“That reminds me! I now officially ban you from seeing Lady Septimus.” “Are we having this conversation? Are we really having this conversation?”
Okay, so it could be called the climactic third-act drama of a YA novel.
Where Gideon out and out calls Harrow a jealous creep because she doesn’t like how ‘Dulcinea’ takes up Gideon’s attention.
(If you turn the page at this point, you will find Gideon saying they both hate each other and always will.
Sure Jan.)
Keep reading
When your game name has been Lady Septimus since 2011, and you find out someone has written fiction using that name o.o
