Poor Levi. I just felt like the only way he was going to trust Gen and the others was for them to save him. And the idea of Gen getting offended when he was embarrassed at everyone thinking he was gay made me giggle.
It also seemed important for Sage to save Levi. Important for her, important for him, important for the story.
I'm hoping in Part Three to give poor Levi more screen time. What I like about him is how much he likes all these bad-ass women around him. He's best friends with Gen (and was infatuated with her for years), has always like Sage, and I just think that's really cool of him. I think it says a lot about the character of a guy when he's drawn to strong women and doesn't feel threatened by them.
Natalya finally makes an appearance, which is perhaps the most important part of the chapter. She appeared very briefly in the epilogue of Part One (that was her in the final scene). And what does she do now that she's finally arrived? She fires Michael. Poor guy. Did anyone besides me feel a little bit bad for him in that scene?
The one thing I can promise is that at the end of each part of CotA, something will happen that changes everything because I don't want the story to get stale. In Part One, Hayden died. In Part Two, Michael gets fired. In Part Three...now, you don't expect me to reveal that yet, do you?
Anyway, the group had finally found a rhythm during the past few chapters, so it seemed necessary to break that up before anyone got too comfortable.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."
Author Commentary
Poor Levi. I just felt like the only way he was going to trust Gen and the others was for them to save him. And the idea of Gen getting offended when he was embarrassed at everyone thinking he was gay made me giggle.
It also seemed important for Sage to save Levi. Important for her, important for him, important for the story.
I'm hoping in Part Three to give poor Levi more screen time. What I like about him is how much he likes all these bad-ass women around him. He's best friends with Gen (and was infatuated with her for years), has always like Sage, and I just think that's really cool of him. I think it says a lot about the character of a guy when he's drawn to strong women and doesn't feel threatened by them.
Natalya finally makes an appearance, which is perhaps the most important part of the chapter. She appeared very briefly in the epilogue of Part One (that was her in the final scene). And what does she do now that she's finally arrived? She fires Michael. Poor guy. Did anyone besides me feel a little bit bad for him in that scene?
The one thing I can promise is that at the end of each part of CotA, something will happen that changes everything because I don't want the story to get stale. In Part One, Hayden died. In Part Two, Michael gets fired. In Part Three...now, you don't expect me to reveal that yet, do you?
Anyway, the group had finally found a rhythm during the past few chapters, so it seemed necessary to break that up before anyone got too comfortable.
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"She wrapped evil around her like a large, evil Mexican serape."