Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24101790-20140806025947/@comment-25204624-20140824234318

EmpyrealInvective wrote:

Red.Hood wrote: Finished Monument 14. The premise was good, though the whole -SPOILERS- "chemical affects you based on blood type" part was a little weak,-SPOILERS END-  but I despised the characters.

Not gonna read the sequels. They probably did it so they could have some variance on the disease, still if the character's aren't relatable/empathetic/interesting, it really detracts from the story, I recently read a zombie trilogy whose character development went so far as to label one character a 'goofball', one a 'scientist/intellectual', and another a inquisitive reporter, and didn't develop them past that point and the book(s) were just disappointing to read as there was no emotional investment. It isn't really a disease, just a air and waterborne chemical weapon leak. The main character, though. A certain part of of his dialouge about his love interest, Astrid, creeped the hell out of me.

''"What I wanted was Astrid. She looked so good to me I wanted to take her, in a dark and terrible way." ''

That part just freaked me out. The main character, Dean, always obsessed over he appearance. He even goes as far as to watch her undress. I feel like he was a sex offender before they got trapped in the supermarket.

At the end of the book, -SPOILERS- Instead of boarding the repaired school bus to Denver to be evacuated, he stays at the supermarket after finding out that Astrid is pregnant. That part made absolutely NO sense. They've been in there for at least 5 months, I believe, and the only person who was sexually interested in her has type B blood, which causes reproductive organ failure.

Even then, I don't understand why she just couldn't board the bus anyway. Just let herself be tied up, like Dean would have been (her blood type is type O, which causes one to become extremely violent and angry), and get on the bus. I don't think it would take more than 2 months to get to Denver. Even if it did, just pack some stuff for the baby. I also couldn't really see why he stayed with Astrid. She didn't have much character development in my opinion, because she was AWOL for half of the book. -SPOILERS END-                                                              

Like I said, not gonna read the sequels.