Acqua’s Reviews > Jane, Unlimited > Status Update

Finished Jane, Unlimited (the story). The only thing I liked was the ending. There's only The Strayhound, The Girl, and the Painting left, then I have finished Jane, Unlimited (the book).

"What we’ve discovered is a thermodynamically reversible quantum boundary that allows for local recoherence"

...come se fosse antani

There was a time when I wanted to get to the interesting parts. Now I don't believe those parts exist and I just want it to end.

Jane says that her aunt is brave because she's not afraid of:
- bull sharks (understandable)
- poisonous squids (as far as I know, they don't exist, so it's difficult to be afraid of them. There's a poisonous octopus and a poisonous cuttlefish, no squids)
- giant clams (they don't even move! Why should anyone be afraid of them?)
So brave, aunt Magnolia.

“I don’t like this house.”

Me neither, but for different reasons.

Finished Lies Without Borders, it was terrible.
Now onto In Which Someone Loses a Soul and Charlotte Finds One, I hope someone dies (all of them?)
Not DNFing just because I want to write a review of this.

I've officially begun hate-reading this, or at least this Lies Without Borders part.

"She’d planned to wear a sleeveless gold top over purple jeans to look like a royal gramma"

To look like a Gramma loreto you'd need a purple top and gold jeans, but ok. I also do not need to read the descriptions of the clothes you planned to wear but didn't, it reads like bad fanfiction.

Everything in this book is... executed badly? I like the idea of it, but the writing is mediocre at best, the plotting is weak and the "reveals" are either lackluster or contrived.

So. I've reached Lies Without Borders.
The ending of The Missing Masterpiece was contrivance + contrivance + pretentious conversation about umbrellas. You can't set up a mystery and then have the protagonist solve it basically by chance.

This book keeps disappointing me.