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Lisa Hagy
Enjoyed the book thoroughly but this made no sense to me! I thought I missed something.
Jason Monroe
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Rinne
I thoroughly enjoyed the book until the end. I thought the cottage piece made no sense and was unnecessary. Although I suppose Monroe, Parkoos and Marsbergen are correct.
Sue
Jack Lineberry's original 'cottage' had been blown up and this cottage was being built to replace it. I think that Atlee had just had it with the lies that Jack had told and had to physically do something other than murder him....so she murdered his cottage. That's why Carol Blum gently held Jack back when he moved to stop Atlee's explosion.
Mike Marsbergen
What Parkoos said makes sense. I also believe it was simply to remind us of Atlee's physicality as a direct parallel to Mercy's apparent size and ferociousness.
Susan A
These answers do make sense to me, but I also felt besides getting out her frustrations and anger, I still felt I misses something. What is the significance of the cottage? Did her mother go there to be with her biological father?
Suzanne Wolf
WHY is this not marked spoiler????? I just read Daylight and all throughout the book I was waiting for Atlee to destroy the cottage. It was very clear why - he took something from her (her time with her parents) so she took something from him. And also, she was PISSED and needed to destroy something.
Liz Wheeler
I just finished the book and I, too, am puzzled about the cottage. Can it be a lead in to a book #4? Really need a followup to find Mercy and Atlee's Mom or what happened to her.
Parkoos
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Carmen
To me it seemed the author just filled dead space so he can squeeze another book out of the search for Mercy. I found it ridiculous.. but the premise was she was real mad at bio daddy for not telling her that the father who raised her was alive and hiding with real mom. (Tim had killed Ito but destroyed his face so Lineberry helped Tim pretend that Tim was the dead guy so the Mafia would leave Atlee's parents alone. Lineberry is super rich but she decided the cottage must mean a lot to him so she destroyed it to "take something away from him". I found it tiresome (yawn)
James Yates
Pure anger at almost finding Mercy and mad at Linberry for continuing to deceive her. Mad her parents who abandoned her. Pushed her into herself and why she prefers to work in a one-agent office.
Mabaker
maybe this was her way of getting all that pent up anger out of her system
Vibhuti Gupta
well it seemed pointless to me, though looking at other answers it does make sense that she got so frustrated with all the lies that Lineberry had told Pine throughout her life. That she took it out on the cottage. Also she must have felt helpless after seeing her sister in the videotape along with discovering the truth about her parents, she just couldn't hold her anger anymore. Her whole life had been a lie when it comes to the story of her mother and father and also about Ito vincenzo who had abducted her sister Mercy.
Mark Cofta
Though Hemingway wisely remarked that "movement is not action," the author chose to end this volume (I hesitate to call it a novel, since it doesn't resolve the story) with a moment of violence disguised as action meant to propel us into volume 4.
Martha Roy
I guess frustration. I think it could have ended better. More questions than answers. I'm assuming there will be at least one more book.
Kerry
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Roxy Fox
I agree with what’s been said and would also add that at the end of the book she learned a lot that could easily have increased her emotional explosiveness into a climax... the cottage. Mike also had a good point with drawing a parallel between the sisters.
Carol Adams
Anger. Disappointment. Frustration. Destroying her father’s home, his security.
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