Complicit
Wow, this book was not what I expected or wanted it to be. I got this bad vibe about Jamie the minute I started to read about him. I don’t know what it was; I just didn’t trust the guy. When he gets word that his sister Cate is getting released, he becomes anxious and intense. Her two years in the detention center went by quickly and why no one told him she was getting released, has him stressed. His cataplexy starts to kick in and he starts to lose control again. Flashbacks to what happened two years ago filtered throughout the book and kept me up-to-date with what is flooding through Jamie’s mind as he tries to handle his life now that his world is turning on its axis. Phone calls from his sister inform him that she’s coming and that puts him on edge. As I am reeled back in time, I was captivated more with the life of the teens back in the day then what is happening now. I wished I could read more about the life they led then, as Cate seems to have some twisted power that she unleashes on her peers that they succumb to. She is powerful, above all of them and they are her lackeys. Its Jamie’s medical condition that makes him stand out as I read about him, it’s his trance-like symptoms that make him seems so mysterious and put me on edge. As Cate makes her appearance, Jamie and Cate confront their past and their future, as something’s never change. There really wasn’t any intensity, nor was there any fire that kept me going me though his book and I thought the first half of the book was rather mundane. Had there been another issue to contend with or other relationships in the book, it might have held my attention more, but again that is my own opinion.
5
