“Motoring…What’s your price for flight”

9. Sister Dearest – D.E. Athkins

Vicki is not my favorite protagonist. All I saw was a superficial girl with very little to redeem her. Just like her sister.

Her BFF Janet is an artist- a secretive artist – and a cheerleader.

Her other friend Lolly is, well, something, she seems a bit giggly and also like an amorphous blob.

Her dad is strict.

Her sister is popular and somehow part of a sorority organization in high school (we didn’t have that stuff at my high school).

Her brother, her sister’s twin, is a little creepy but used to be her very best friend before the accident.

Her ex-boyfriend sounds like he got left back a year or two and his chin was described as “gravel.”

Her enemy wants gravel chin.

Her new dude, Dace, yes, Dace, is apparently cool and very attractive.

Are there too many characters for a 106 page book? YES.

Do these characters have a little too much going on for a 106 page book? YES.

Janet could just be a secretive artist, you know, Deathkins, she didn’t have to also be a cheerleader and date Vicki’s creepy brother. Lolly could’ve not existed, it’s not like she did anything that in any way added to the story besides just being a person that was there during Vicki’s accident. Maybe she could’ve had a monologue in which she explained that the reason all these dorks were in an accident like the one they had was that all of them suck as people AND perhaps their interpersonal relations might have had just a bit more to it.

Does the central mystery get lost while you’re trying to figure out who all these people are? YES.

Vicki’s smoking in the bathroom while I’m unconcerned about who is trying to bother her and then ramping up their threats. “I thought you quit,” says Janet. Who are these people?

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When guinea pigs get confused about the “plot,” they do what Ozymandias is doing. Nap.