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I get what you are saying. I found that a little to extraordinary, but in a world of pirates and zombies, I was willing to overlook it.
I found that a bit funny as well. Also, they made such a big deal about her never being able to exert herself again - next chapter...Rhys: "So, how's your heart made from junk on the street?"
Mina: "Oh, that old thing? I got a super cool new one that's even better then my real heart, and it's a good thing because you're about to have your way with me."
Rhys:"Splended, let's just run into this house over here. I'm sure they won't mined."
Rhys: "So, how's your heart made from junk on the street?"Mina: "Oh, that old thing? I got a super cool new one that's even better then my real heart, and it's a good thing because you're about to have your way with me."
Rhys:"Splended, let's just run into this house over here. I'm sure they won't mined."
Lol, totally.
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Mina: "Oh, that old thing? I got a super cool new one that's even better then my real heart, and it's a good thing because you're about to..."
LOL I agree, everything from then to the end was not the best, but up until then I love this book so whatever. hehe, dirty heart.
I actually laughed and did a 'Whaaatt!?' I get her mom is good, but seriously.. LOLAnd the whole exerting.. LOL I was expecting a bit of struggle with trying to work with it, but nope!
I enjoyed this book lot and will be getting the others..
Haha, love your comment Melissa. The fake heart thing was definitely wacky. Aside from being totally impossible, I didn't really get the point of it. Couldn't the author have accomplished basically the same thing by giving Mina a nonfatal gunshot wound?
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I think Rhys, in his need to possess, didn't really understand how strong the pull of love was - hence why he was so easily able to let Mina leave the Terror and replace her with a cigarillo. Even though they are separated at this point, Rhys is nothing if not persistent. He would keep trying to possess her so long as Mina was well.
For Mina and Rhys to end up happily ever ever, Rhys needed to love her, not just want her. He needed to have that moment of "oh shit, I've lost her" to shock him into realizing that he doesn't want to live without her. The fatal wound/mechanical heart/recovery time gives him that time. I don't think it would have had the same emotional outcome if it hadn't been fatal.
Maybe almost-fatal would have been a better descriptor for what I was trying to say. Shock and recovery time would be similar without throwing in a mechanical ticker.
Didn't she get an even-better-super-dooper-heart from the Blacksmith? It's about four books ago now but istr a Terribly Significant Look between her parents and the Blacksmith mid-operation. I figured it was setting up backplot/foreshadowing for later novels, some kind of debt between him and her family? I agree with Vicky, though, that "heart-stopping moment" was the final straw needed for Rhys switch from possession to love.
Caroline wrote: "Didn't she get an even-better-super-dooper-heart from the Blacksmith? It's about four books ago now but istr a Terribly Significant Look between her parents and the Blacksmith mid-operation. I figu..."As I recall, the Blacksmith came up to them about the time her mother was finishing cobbling together the emergency heart, and he complimented her on the job she'd done, and told them to bring Mina to see him when she'd stabilized (or something like that anyway). A few months later, when Mina sees Rhys again, she mentions, or it's mentioned in narration, that she'd gotten a mechanical skin heart from the Blacksmith in the interim.
I *think* it was implied that he was going to do the job for free - some comment about how they had paid enough, or Mina had paid enough already when the first replacement had just been made and her parents were begging him to help her further, saying they'd pay anything he asked. I could be wrong about the "no further payment needed" bit though - it was a bit vague i think.
Rhys intervened with the Blacksmith, pretty much growling that Mina's visit for a permanent replacement heart would be free. The Blacksmith agreed...which is interesting. Their relationship (Rhys & the Blacksmith's) remains unresolved.
I agree. It was completely over-the-top, even for zombies and nanobots. Apparently Mina's mother has the Robot Devil's hands of transcendental quickness.
Anna wrote: "the fake heart bit really silly? It was made on the spot and worked the first time! Maybe this is the engineer in me, but it was pretty hard not to laugh at this scene...."I found it pretty silly, too. That whole scene could have been handled with just as much drama by having her take a serious and probably fatal wound, then be whisked off to surgery with Rhys not knowing if he'd ever see her again. A heart is not a bilge pump, I just don't buy somebody whipping one together in a couple of minutes. That said, this scene is the least of my problems with this book, however entertaining parts of it may be.
I feel like the author had the story all planned out for Mina to end up with the mechanical heart (considering the next book is titled Heart of Steel). It did feel really hastily and shabbily thrown together as far as the writing in the story, but that could easily be chalked up to deadlines and such. I wish she had written the mechanical heart into the story better, but the fact that the main character now has an awesome heart is pretty cool.
I really liked the rest of the book however. I liked all the other steampunk tech but for some reason making a mechanical heart on a stage in a couple minutes just didn't work for me.