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A review by lunelis
The Possessed by L.J. Smith
2.0
The narrative is still going pretty strong. I was engaged despite the fast pacing and simplicity of the story. However, this installment has two things that are... eh...
1) Kaitlyn is basically cheating on Rob. Like she kisses and hugs and mind touches with Gabriel is and is way more concerned for him. I think she's only with Rob because she feels like that's the correct thing to do and Gabriel pushing her away irritates her or something. Like we can all tell she really wants to be with Gabriel but is like playing them both hot and cold because she like wants to have the best of both, I guess.
2) They treat mental illness kind of badly. Like we're told the prior psychic group all went insane and now they're being weaponized against the five leads, but then it's like "we can feel their insanity and their evil" and it's like... okay so, are you saying they're evil because they're sick? That's not how that works. Secondly, if they're evil because they were corrupted by the evil crystal then... like... act like that's the cause? Don't just write them off as "crazy and evil"??
Otherwise this is basically part 2 of the book. They've escaped and they're looking for help, we realize Gabriel wasn't unaffected by the evil crystal which causes him and Kait to get closer, they find the guy from the airport on this secret little island colony with other psychics, they endure a psychic attack, everyone on the island does a 180 and goes from "welp we can't help" to "okay let's go defeat him" and then Gabriel, being a fucking little edgelord because Kait like is with Rob and he's like mad about it despite pushing her away decides to run away with Lydia back to the evil guy.
The majority of this book is them just being on the road so it's definitely just a bridging book between the start and ending :/ I got through it easy enough but I do think this didn't need to be its own book so I suppose I do understand why later editions of this book were bound together in a 3 book bulk; the story is linear enough that it doesn't really need to be chopped apart.
1) Kaitlyn is basically cheating on Rob. Like she kisses and hugs and mind touches with Gabriel is and is way more concerned for him. I think she's only with Rob because she feels like that's the correct thing to do and Gabriel pushing her away irritates her or something. Like we can all tell she really wants to be with Gabriel but is like playing them both hot and cold because she like wants to have the best of both, I guess.
2) They treat mental illness kind of badly. Like we're told the prior psychic group all went insane and now they're being weaponized against the five leads, but then it's like "we can feel their insanity and their evil" and it's like... okay so, are you saying they're evil because they're sick? That's not how that works. Secondly, if they're evil because they were corrupted by the evil crystal then... like... act like that's the cause? Don't just write them off as "crazy and evil"??
Otherwise this is basically part 2 of the book. They've escaped and they're looking for help, we realize Gabriel wasn't unaffected by the evil crystal which causes him and Kait to get closer, they find the guy from the airport on this secret little island colony with other psychics, they endure a psychic attack, everyone on the island does a 180 and goes from "welp we can't help" to "okay let's go defeat him" and then Gabriel, being a fucking little edgelord because Kait like is with Rob and he's like mad about it despite pushing her away decides to run away with Lydia back to the evil guy.
The majority of this book is them just being on the road so it's definitely just a bridging book between the start and ending :/ I got through it easy enough but I do think this didn't need to be its own book so I suppose I do understand why later editions of this book were bound together in a 3 book bulk; the story is linear enough that it doesn't really need to be chopped apart.