Christina (A Reader of Fictions) > Recent Status Updates

"My jaw falls off." She now has no eyes or jaw, but she can bring the boys to the yard.

"His face is a forest of emotion." Deciduous or evergreen?

"I've discovered I don't know how to breathe. I've realized I'll probably never exhale in his presence." That could be in the dictionary under TSTL. No breathing; no life.

"Quietly, is how he says it to me." This dialog tag really needed its own sentence.

"His gaze is fixed on me: calm, unflappable; 2 buckets of river water at midnight." How oddly specific yet meaningless.

Juliette tries to make a joke.

YO MOMMA SO SAD CUZ SHE GOT A SON LIKE YOU.

"You shouldn't care, but it's obvious you do."

I shouldn't agree with the evil guy, buuuut I do.

"I try to find my head but I can't."

"Because I care about you."

Oh good, the big bad evil guy instaloved on the heroine, apparently. That's fun.

I could eat every person in this room.

This may be the best idea she's had so far.

Warner: "Don't confuse stupidity for bravery, love."

1) GOOD POINT.

2) Is he British? The first scene didn't mention an accent. So he's just a pretentious douche, yeah?

"I haven't seen real flowers in years."

Why are you shocked, Juliette? I thought you were in prison for years. Were you expecting a bouquet with your daily unidentifiable mush for breakfast?

I stare at the purple dress with Adam's fingerprints.

No. Unless this dress is made of plastic and he left a fingerprint on it, then you have officially gone too far.

"They want to delete every point of punctuation in my life from this earth"

Same page:"I've been neglected abandoned ostracized and dragged from my home."

THE PUNCTUATION THEFT HAS BEGUN

you will have to imagine the exclamation points

"Adam gentles me onto the soft mattress"

Here's what might have worked better:

Adam laid me gently on the soft mattress. WTF does what the book says even mean? *headdesks*

"I want to forget that I'm supposed to hate him."

NO. There are other gorgeous guys in the world. UGH. Stop using such instalovey language. I know you're starved for human contact but OY.

"My skin is cold-sweat"

I believe you mean your skin is covered in a cold sweat. Your skin is not composed of cold or sweat.

"They filled our world with weapons aimed at our foreheads and smiled as they shot 16 candles right through our future."

Seriously, what? Is one of their primary weapons John Hughes movies?

"The same arms that held my body are now holsters for lethal weapons."

I do believe you mean WEARING holsters. Or maybe he's carved a holster into his flesh so he can put his gun directly in his arm. Maybe that's how they roll in this future. It would be intimidating.

"His skin is flawless, unblemished, his jawline sharp and strong. His eyes are the palest shade of emerald green I've ever seen.

He's beautiful.

I'm guessing this is Warner. He's ONLY beautiful. Adam's gorgeous apparently.

And, also, emerald green is by definition not pale. This is just another shade of green.

"It takes me two days to open my eyes."

What this could mean:
1) Her eyes were swollen shut from punches and she couldn't open them for two days.
2) She meant to say that she didn't open her eyes for two days because she was unconscious.
3) It took her two days to remember how to open her eyes.

It's scary how much I think 3 is the correct option.

"I've forgotten to inhale."

I'm impressed she's managed to live to 17.

Listen, Jules, let's have some real talk, yeah? I know you haven't been touched in ages, but your attachment to Adam bc he touched your clothing is a bit hard to stomach.

This listing of random things Juliette can remember is super fascinating. It's quite Homeric.

"Someone is sticking forks in my back as I trip away." You don't want to know how Adam sneaked those forks in here. (Hint: there are some places tines do not belong.)

"Something punches me in the stomach.

His eyes."

Well, that's a neat trick.

Later on that page: "My eyes are unfocused and aching."

BECAUSE THEY EXPLODED AND ARE NOT A MILLION CAMERAS. DUH.

"He shifts and my eyes shatter into thousands of pieces that ricochet around the room, capturing a million snapshots, a million moments in time. Flickering images faded with age, frozen thoughts hovering precariously in dead space, a whirlwind of memories that slice through my soul."

Her eyes just exploded and turned into cameras. I hate when that happens.

"I catch the rose petals as they fall from my cheeks, as they float around the frame of my body, as they cover me in something that feels like the absence of courage."

Whatever you say.

"Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too.

I always wonder about raindrops.

I wonder about how they're always falling down, tripping over their own feet, breaking their legs and forgetting their parachutes as they tumble right out of the sky toward an uncertain end. It's like someone is emptying their pockets over the earth and doesn't seem to care where the contents ..

I'm excited to find out how a giant eye with treelashes hooks up with human boys. What a unique premise!

The cover told me this. It wouldn't lie, right? It IS about a giant floating eye, yeah?