Status Updates From Reunion At Walnut Cherryvil...

I feel like I'm reading this through a filter. Not really engaging with this.

I suppose it was inevitable they'd end up back at WCV, but they should have thought more about it.

Paranoid, or cautious? Collins and the others are laying a dangerous game.

Returned to the correctional centre and getting some more background, but it's odd.

Not totally clear why the characters are as they are. Rather slow.

Badly thought-out escape plan. Amy could be interesting.

Sinister set-up. Wonder how this place came into existence.

This sounds like an awful place to end up-like a cult with no believers. Not gripped right now.

"My gifts totaled out to about $1,000 in cash value, but I expected the second year to be even better, which it was, by 300 percent." High school student with an after school job washing dishes earns $300,000 prostituting in her spare time?? Maybe if she blackmailed her clients! And the author just distracted me from the read as my imagination came to a screeching halt to call bullshit!

So far choppy and unrealistic. Unrealistic in scenario and character action. By choppy, I mean the storyline is popping right along from one scene to the next like it's in fast forward. I feel detached from the world and the characters at this point but it's still early.