Questioning author-ity, part 2

After raising this question about the point at which a reader takes some kind of ownership of a character, the point at which the author's authority is no longer absolute, I decided to look back at a book I read recently.  I read Neal Shusterman's UNWIND not too long ago, and I read with extra attention and awareness since I knew I was going to blog about it, and I think I can remember where this transfer might have happened for me.

It started to happen with the characters Risa and Connor at the