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Meredith, I agree with you strongly on the avatar-sex sequence. Myself a writer, that was just the sort of thing I would read over and, embarrassed, would delete. It erased the whole tragedy of Susie's death: she gets to come back and have sex. She was, in essence, never really dead. It also takes the whole book down a notch, to paranormal fantasy. (Nothing wrong with paranormal fantasy. Except, when you start out literary, don't go graphic-novel then expect your reader to hold the whole work in the higher regard.)
I agree with this! I remember thinking "Um, how about we tell the family who killed you"...I ended up feeling like I was reading a different book after that.
She's given a second chance to be physically present (through Ruth's body)on Earth for a small limited time but spent it having sex with her boy crush than be with her family, say I love you one last time. That part totally sucks.
@Katrina Jayne: Agreed. It spoiled the novel. By its frivolity but more so, because Suzie's "not exactly dead". The sting of Death is its utter finality.Obviate that by the dead coming back,then why are you writing a book about a child's death.
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Meredith, I agree with you strongly on the avatar-sex sequence. Myself a writer, that was just the sort of thing I would read over and, embarrassed, would delete. It erased the whole tragedy of Susie's death: she gets to come back and have sex. She was, in essence, never really dead. It also takes the whole book down a notch, to paranormal fantasy. (Nothing wrong with paranormal fantasy. Except, when you start out literary, don't go graphic-novel then expect your reader to hold the whole work in the higher regard.)
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I agree with this! I remember thinking "Um, how about we tell the family who killed you"...I ended up feeling like I was reading a different book after that.
She's given a second chance to be physically present (through Ruth's body)on Earth for a small limited time but spent it having sex with her boy crush than be with her family, say I love you one last time. That part totally sucks.
@Katrina Jayne: Agreed. It spoiled the novel. By its frivolity but more so, because Suzie's "not exactly dead". The sting of Death is its utter finality.Obviate that by the dead coming back,then why are you writing a book about a child's death.
