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Jul 09, 2016ahardy08 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
Hello everyone! This book started off a little bit slow for me and it took me some time to get into it. In fact I never got into it. I only finished it because of my strong willed determination. It has a refreshing plot but just poor execution. I figured out what was happening just because I knew that the supernaturalists must be wrong in their original hunt. This is told in alternating viewpoints but within the same chapter. It is mostly told in the main characters point of view though. Notes: -The rain is dangerous for the eyes due to toxic chemicals mixing with it. It makes your eyes burn. -Maybe I’m not reading well enough but I don’t understand their world and how it works. For example, they say: “The Satellite feeds the rotation times to the units. Apparently two apartments got rotated south at the same time.” “The Big Pig is a twenty-four-hour city, so factories revolve their buildings just as they revolve their shifts. Everybody gets eight hours quiet and eight hours south facing. For the other eight, you’re working, so you don’t care where your apartment is.” “The Satellite tried to squeeze two apartments into one space. Nasty.” page 61” Do they mean that the actual building is rotating? Is the building also actually moving positions? -I feel like the Parasites are like guardian angels kind of. -Early prediction: the Parasites are protecting the souls of those dead because Satellite City stores the dead souls in maybe redistributes them or something like that. Prediction wrong but on the right track. -I skipped a lot of this story because it was just dead information. Like the things happening were not moving the plot along at all but just kind of happening. I literally skimmed through most of chapter five, seven, eight, nine, and ten. I probably could’ve skimmed this whole book and still tell you what happened. If you would like to see the rest of my review, please check out: https://doiwanttoreadthat.com/2016/02/10/the-supernaturalist-by-eoin-colfer/