Summary: Gaia gets suspicious of Skyler's true motivations about her, Jake meanwhile tries to find more about Invince and the dealer "God" with Oliver, Ed and Gaia get to hang out again, Jake finds out Chris Rodke is actually God, and Gaia learns that Dr. Rodke plans to use the Invince on soldiers to make a fearless army.
Exposed serves as boring filler to set up the last and final entry of the Fearless series. It was marginally better compared to the recent ones I finished reading.
1. If Gaia gave up living a normal life like she claims, then what was the point of her trying to bond with the FOHs and gain fear?
2. Communication fail: Why doesn't Gaia just admit to Ed and company that she went and tried to get fear back? Yeah, it would piss off everyone, but it's better to know the truth.
3. What was the point in having Liz gloss over the Cain and Abel story in her monologue when Tom had already referenced it several books ago? There's also more sibling rivalry examples that could have been used instead like Romulus & Remus. Also I don't remembering reading anything about Cain and Abel fighting for Adam's affection. That could have happened, although I do remember that in the story God accepts Abel's offering while denying Cain's which leads to Abel's death. It's also pointless to mention bible stories if Liz herself was too distracted to get the details correct.
4. According to Liz, having some poor class grades doesn't matter if any of your parents appeared on famous game shows. Not only is that just stupid, but can you imagine an exchange like this taking place with that logic:
Principal: Ok kiddo I think you'll have to be held back this year because of multiple Fs and Ds
Kid: But my dad has been on Wheel of Fortune over 20 times!
Principal: What?! That's impressive! I'm passing you on to the next grade!
Having parents no matter how big of celebrities they are still doesn't excuse you from education. It's YOUR life after all.
5. Another thing I hate the parents in this series for is for seeming like the wish fulfillment parents teens everywhere dream they had; the kind you see in a lot of movies. I'm not sure whether being relieved to see Dr. Rodke later showing symptoms of narcissistic parenting a good thing or a bad thing, as I find him the most realistic parent thus far.
6. I find it hypocritical for Dr. Rodke to order Chris to stop being jealous of Skyler to prevent the press from writing bad stuff about him while resorting to shady ways of distributing Invince to people. I guess that's villainy for me....
7. The twist of Chris being God didn't make much sense to me.
Only one more book left to review/read and I will be GONE.....On a well deserved break from reading.