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Sean Platt
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December 2, 2019 - January 13, 2020
The empty hood of the bathtub crinkled like paper and threw Luca back hard against his seat and out cold on impact. The last thing he sensed as he slipped into darkness was the fire, not on his skin, but starting in the back of the car.
If he hit the rear-end of a vehicle in front of him, the he would have been thrown forward, against the steering wheel. He would have been thrown back into the seat only if HE was hit from behind!!!
The fridge was still cold, though it’d gone as dark as the always-blinking alarm. Boricio stepped into the hallway and grabbed the time from the beat-to-shit clock with the three missing Romans — 2:17 am.
At the start of this chapter, it say's that it is 1:17 a.m., NOT 2:17 a.m.. He has not been uo for an hour so one of these times must be wrong.
The motel room was dead. Just like the alley. And the stairwell. And his fucking apartment. And just like that, the restaurant sign went dark, the humming ceased, leaving everything quiet. Like no animals or insects quiet. The kinda quiet you sometimes got right before a hurricane, but even quieter. A flirt’s worth of fear fluttered through Boricio’s body. It almost made him smile; it’d been so long since he’d felt it, but his beading temple kept the grimace fixed. Boricio stepped back into the alley, drawing a deep breath and inhaling a perfumed gust from the Mississippi. The river. Fuck
...more
What alley???? Does the motel room open up into an alley???
First, though, he had to figure out where he was. A newspaper rack at the front counter spilled the beans – he was in Ohio. Made sense given the girl’s sweater in the photo.
How does the picture of a sweater on a girl in the paper tell him he's in Ohio??? Does not make sense!!!
confusing.
confusion
A minute later Boricio was back behind the wheel, with the siren at full bray and the cruiser’s odometer kissing red, headed back into the business district.
How is the odometer "kissing the red" ? The odometer tells you the distance a wheeled vehicle has traveled!!!
Paola met her mom at the front door with two suitcases, stuffed with Mary’s favorite jeans, cammies, and sweaters, with 15 minutes to spare.
What about Paola's clothes???? Or it should say she was at the front door with two suitcases, one filled with Mary's favorite jeans, etc, etc.
shot
shots
There were two shots, not one.
“Why us? Why didn’t they take us?” Brent
Why take his wife but leave him? Weren't they sleeping in the same bed???
“Well, I’d like to tell you a story.” Will sat and crossed his legs. “You’re a smart kid, Luca. And if we’re gonna travel together, I figure we’ve gotta start out right.” Luca sat in front of him with his hands in his lap. Will said, “I’ve been waiting for you. And I mean you specifically, not just anyone. And I haven’t been waiting just three days. It’s been nearly a year. That’s why I came down here to live in the first place.” Will rubbed his temples, chewed his lip, lowered his voice, then dropped to one knee, and looked Luca in the eye.
How did he drop to a knee from sitting cross-legged?
The girl jumped back as the thing ran past her and tumbled into the living room. From the bedroom, Bob screamed something, shooting at another of the creatures trying to claw through Charlie’s window. The creature in the kitchen was back on its feet, glaring at the girl.
...ran past her and tumbled into the kitchen.
You can't stumble from the living room, into the living room.
The man fell back into the candy rack on the front of the cashier’s counter, dropping the rifle, which sent a shell into the fountain drink station.
...sent a round into the....
The shell of a bullet is the brass casing.
Brent and Luis listened as silence seemed to stretch to eternity. Brent was pretty sure he could hear Melora’s breathing over the light static.
They are using two-way radios, which means that you have to hold the transmit button down to transmit and release it to receive any messages. Since he was talking to Stan, how could he hear her breathing unless she had the radio and was holding down the transmit button. But we know that's not the case after reading the next paragraph!!!!
“They’re eating him!” Melora screamed, but from a distance, as if she’d dropped the radio and was running into a room.
So who had the radio???????
Manny asked Adam, “What do you mean? That what you were trying to say earlier?”
Who is Manny??? I've gone back and forth looking for his name and cannot find him.
He didn’t know dick about dick, and still needed
Shouldn't that be.... 'shit about dick' ???
“My name is Boricio,” he said into the mirror, rolling the ‘r’, even though the guy in his dream didn’t seem Spanish.
I think that Boricio is an italian name, not spanish
I’ve got Manny, Moe,
Still don't know who Manny is. He was never introduced by name.... See location 3166
He was him, but not like he remembered. He was now slightly taller than Paola, with a full head of hair that fell just past his shoulders. The face staring back at him was at least a good five years older, and looked remarkably like his father’s.
He was physically at the hotel the whole time, so is the author saying that all of these physical changes happened while everyone was watching him???
Any other person, any other time, Luis would’ve knocked a clown out for talking like that to him.
...the clown out....
The two guards reached for their guns. Boricio swung the bat and broke the knuckles of the first guard before he’d even unfastened his holster.
Why would he be trying to unbuckle his holster? Boricio had no problem pulling the pistol out of it!!!!
then
than
“Woo-hoo!” Boricio yelled. “If Moses saw the look on your two faces, he would’ve had to add an extra commandment!”
Love it!!!!!! LOL
Left hand on the wheel, Ed raised his pistol, fired twice — once at the thing’s chest, another at its face. Both shots met their target, and the creature fell and Ed ran it over.
How did he run it over if he shot it off the hood while going in reverse?
John looked at the filthy, four-legged rat with two narrowed slits of brewing hate, then turned his attention to the woman.
How can he call a Husky a rat???
Will said, “Looks like Lord Vader doesn’t like them bleakers at all!”
His name is Dog Vader, not Lord Vader!!!
“I’m sorry Lord Vader,
So is his name Lord Vader, Dog Vader, or both?????
“How to Eat Fried Worms.
The Christmas gift he’d killed on Oct. 14, and the very fucking one he saw at The Prophet’s compound less than a week later. She was standing on the side of the road as if waiting for someone to pick her up. If it wasn’t her, then the end of the world had just shit a Montezuma’s Revenge worth of crazy on his face.
I don't remember him talking about the girl when he was held prisoner!!!!
He could track Red Jacket down and finish the job. He’d have to wait until his ankle was better, and hope Red Jacket didn’t come back before then. But if he could find the bastard, he could make sure Carmine and his grandpa would be safe, from one asshole, anyway.
Wait..... This is the assistant grocery store manager that didnt want anyone to get hurt during the robbery??? The guy that cheated on his wife???? The guy that got involved with the mob over his gambling addiction???
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Need to delete this word to make a proper sentence.
it was a Sunday morning sermon anyway. “The Sanctuary hereby states that Rebecca will be punished in accordance with The Word and those rules written within. She shall spend one week in the Box of Shame and have all of the locks upon her head removed effective immediately and permanently, so she may no longer seduce the men of The Sanctuary.”
How many Boxes of Shame are there? The boy gets two weeks, Rebecca gets one but up to the first 31% of this book it implies that there is only one Box!!!!
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Need to delete the \ .
Oh my god! Oh my fucking god!
God should be capitalised.
He checked the side doors and confirmed they couldn’t be opened from the outside without a key card (which wouldn’t work anyway without electricity),
But they still lock without electricity?????
The trio said good night. Mary returned to her room and tucked Paola in for the night before slipping beneath the stiff sheets of her hard bed,
Wasn't Paola sleeping in a different house with the other children? Mary was staying in the house with the other women. So how did what this paragraph says happened, happen? Are the two now sharing a room?
“I was going to ask you the same thing,” he said. Ryan smiled the same smile that had brought her to her knees more times than she could count.
Is this saying what I think it is saying, in regards to her getting on her knees???? LOL. It sure seems like it is!!! LOLOLOLLOL
The Box of Shame,
Still wondering how many boes there are!!!??? Still haven't heard about the boy that was with Rebecca!!!!
he wasn’t back before lunch was over, he’d have a tough time getting in undetected, and would probably wind up sharing a cell with Carl, wherever the hell they were holding the kid.
Could Carl be held in the basement that Boricio, Charlie and the others were held prisoner? Which, by the way, confuses the hell out of me!!!! Why are they (the Prophets people) acting SOOOOOO different now than they were then?????
in the bathroom at the end of his hall, along with a set of keys to a BWM parked in the woods on the south side of
Is the Z8 a BMW???
She finished her sentence with a hard kick to her son’s side. Boricio felt like he was bleeding inside instead of out. The doctor had said that was the most dangerous kind.
What doctor?
Desmond and Mary told John and Brother Rei that they would stay at The Sanctuary, a decision Luca knew they’d been fighting about, from the snippets of conversations, and thoughts, he’d overheard, though he never intended to eavesdrop.
Did Desmund get the duffle bags of guns and the Glock from their hiding spots?
The agony was too much. He screamed
I thought he was not feeling any pain!!!!
They stared at him with knowing,
...with knowing eyes, .....
The Sanctuary had become a battleground, as the men, women, and children fought the demons with guns, shovels, and anything they could find.
But the guns were always locked up!!!
The fire died inside the old man’s cell, and the entire block went dark.
Old man???? Itsaid he was twenty when describing him!!!!
My scientists are speculating that perhaps there is something unique about your case or you that would explain this — something they may be able to use to develop a cure to drive out the parasites.
He talks about 'his scientist' , and 'his guards' , and talks about he was brought to Black Island' as a consultant and even had top security for access to level 7, but what is NOT explained anywhere is what qualifies him for such positions???? Especially with his youth background!!!!
Now, following Boricio to his compound was another massive mistake, and Mary knew it. The man was clearly some sort of monster. Coming with him was like agreeing to load Paola into a Volkswagen Beetle, then drive it at 90 into a tall brick wall.
What compound???? Is there now three Boricio's!!!!!
Boricio barked a broken hiccup of a laugh. “No, I guess if we’re talking Honest Injun, then no, I suppose it wasn’t. First was my dear ole fucking stepdad, but that ain’t a story I wanna tell right now, ya dig?” He smiled. “But it was the first fucker who ever got
I thought Joe was sent to jail on 14 counts of something or another???
Jung knocked Ed to the ground, his hands gripping Ed’s neck and choking him.
Wait....... they are still in the van!!!! How did they get outside so that Ed was knocked to the ground?!!!
