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A review by christianabarwo
Seizure by Brendan Reichs, Kathy Reichs
4.0
I'm continuing the series and I have to say that I liked this book a lot more than the last. The plot is essentially that LIRI is shutting down and that means that Tory and her friends might have to split up, so they have to find a way to save the facility. Problem is, it takes almost $10 million a year to keep the facility running. Enter treasure hunting. Tory and the other virals try to find Anne Bonnie's lost treasure.
I'm not sure how realistic this is when it comes to treasure hunting, or if Anne Bonnie is real, or if there's really pages missing from that Gaelic book in Ireland, but I don't care. I liked this story. I liked how the treasure kept getting moved and Tory has to constantly convince her friends to keep looking using emotional manipulation. I thought it was quite funny.
I do have a few notes. One of them is the fact that one of the characters, Ben, have a hard time "flaring" without being angry first. Now, Ben is Indigenous-American and one of the other characters, Hiram, thought it would be a good idea to use racism as a way to get him angry. This severely rubbed me the wrong way because it was so unnecessary and made me like Hiram a little less. The story has showed us that there are other ways to get Ben angry that would trigger a flare, so Hi resorting to racism is so shady that I don't want to even think of the implications. Plus, it has no bearing or impact on the story or the relationship between Hi and Ben, so it made no sense to include it.
My other note is that there's a love triangle in this book. My question is simple: why? Jason, Tory, and Ben definitely didn't need to be in a love triangle. It's also very obvious that Tory doesn't like Jason, so why can't the author just develop the romance between Tory and Ben? It's not too bad, because Jason isn't in the story much so I'll keep my complaining to a minimum.
The other thing I wanted to talk about is Chance. I don't know why, but I thought he was going to become a trusted member of the group. He had nothing and no one but them, so I thought they would tell him about their secret abilities. Maybe I'm just naive, but I was starting to like Chance. I never really saw him as a bad guy, since he was only doing his father's biding in the first book and it seemed clear to me that his father was putting immense pressure on him. I especially enjoyed Chance's relationship with Ben. I thought it would get some development and they'd be friends. You know, it wouldn't hurt for them to have a rich guy on their team. In the end, they ended up messing with his head and made him question his sanity to the point that he went back to the mental hospital he came from. It's kind of sad, because I thought he had potential to grow.
I'm not sure how realistic this is when it comes to treasure hunting, or if Anne Bonnie is real, or if there's really pages missing from that Gaelic book in Ireland, but I don't care. I liked this story. I liked how the treasure kept getting moved and Tory has to constantly convince her friends to keep looking using emotional manipulation. I thought it was quite funny.
I do have a few notes. One of them is the fact that one of the characters, Ben, have a hard time "flaring" without being angry first. Now, Ben is Indigenous-American and one of the other characters, Hiram, thought it would be a good idea to use racism as a way to get him angry. This severely rubbed me the wrong way because it was so unnecessary and made me like Hiram a little less. The story has showed us that there are other ways to get Ben angry that would trigger a flare, so Hi resorting to racism is so shady that I don't want to even think of the implications. Plus, it has no bearing or impact on the story or the relationship between Hi and Ben, so it made no sense to include it.
My other note is that there's a love triangle in this book. My question is simple: why? Jason, Tory, and Ben definitely didn't need to be in a love triangle. It's also very obvious that Tory doesn't like Jason, so why can't the author just develop the romance between Tory and Ben? It's not too bad, because Jason isn't in the story much so I'll keep my complaining to a minimum.
The other thing I wanted to talk about is Chance. I don't know why, but I thought he was going to become a trusted member of the group. He had nothing and no one but them, so I thought they would tell him about their secret abilities. Maybe I'm just naive, but I was starting to like Chance. I never really saw him as a bad guy, since he was only doing his father's biding in the first book and it seemed clear to me that his father was putting immense pressure on him. I especially enjoyed Chance's relationship with Ben. I thought it would get some development and they'd be friends. You know, it wouldn't hurt for them to have a rich guy on their team. In the end, they ended up messing with his head and made him question his sanity to the point that he went back to the mental hospital he came from. It's kind of sad, because I thought he had potential to grow.