A review by jimmehrabbit
Out of Spite, Out of Mind by Scott Meyer

2.0

With Fight and Flight, nothing really happened. It was a side story Meyer turned into a novel. Before reading this book, I browsed the reviews that said this story was similar, and that Meyer was slowly ruining the amazing world he created with the first 3 books. Based on that, I went into it with low expectations, and I got to say, until the end of the book, I couldn't wrap my mind around the bad reviews it got. Meyers establishes new rules to the universe, several characters are at risk and possible danger, it progresses the story logically, with a plot that actually takes an entire book to tell... But then, that ending. Can't avoid an honest review about this without spoilers, so heads up... It was the equivalent of "It was all a dream." Nothing that happened mattered, and the way things play out make no sense at all. Why does Meyers keep writing about characters who try to change the past, but are never able to? What I thought was the best part of this story, and what I found most intriguing was that, "Whoa... you can change the past? Brit the younger and Brit the elder ARE different?" But nope... 7 hours in, you find out that's not the case... AGAIN. And the explanation of it all is the most infuriating. Brit creates the problem the basically blames and punishes Phillip for it. The past is the way it is because instead of living genuinely, you have to out on an act in order to fulfill the past? Why doesn't Brit the elder TRY being nice to Brit the young and see what happens? Why does she HAVE to give a glitch to Phillip? Why does she have to invent the story that he cheated???? It's makes no sense... And the most bummer thing is if in fact, there was an error that was caused by the past being changed, this would have been the best book in the series. But here we are again... another wasted book that, in the end, DOESN'T progress the story and DOESN'T matter in the least. The book ends where it starts, and is literally a waste of time. Come on Scott... let's do better with Vexed Generation, yeah?