Chapter By Chapter (usually) features me reading one chapter of the selected book at a time and reviewing it as if I were reviewing an episode of a TV show or an issue of a comic. There will be spoilers if you haven’t read to the point I have, and if you’ve read further I ask that you don’t spoil anything further into the book. Think of it as a read-along book club.
Oh, no. This book is starting to mess with me chapter wise. Last time we had a double sized chapter. This week we need two because chapter 15 is only three pages long once you factor in the formatting and chapter 16 is about six.
Now we have our potential suspects and motives. It’s a lot more relationship related that I would have expected from Vulcans, even with humans involved. This could be (and I’m not insulting, trashing, or being negative about anything here as I’m rather enjoying the story) because women do tend to write more about emotional bonds. None of the suspects’ possible motives have to do with revenge or getting rid of a work rival. Romantic rival perhaps or someone standing in the way of romantic involvement, or at least in the way of merging houses. Every choses suspect is given a relationship-motivated goal, even if that goal is ending a relationship versus cultural rules. It’s all fascinating; just not something I expect in a Vulcan-heavy story with only four humans involved, one of which is dead and a second the person left to protect.
Oddly, nobody has assumed Amanda is the target. Could that be a coincidence or part of the plan? Let’s see what the next two chapters bring us. From this point onward I will be discussing the case alongside events, so extra spoilers here. It should be easy to get at a fair price if my quick skim of Google shopping listings is any indication, in both hardback and paperback. Just don’t pay too much. $92 for the paperback? Really, seller? You’re copy could be in better shape than mine and still not worth that.
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