If America picks him in The One, I will fling the book off my balcony with great gusto. About half way through I flung the book down on my bed and said aloud, ' I cannot listen to this person's thoughts anymore!' Asspen, I just can't. They can do that on their own, okay? UGH. Dis bitch still complains about that time America scrounged food for him and cooked him dinner, and he got all caveman ragey and 'Me man, you girl, me provide, girl no work, I take care, har har'.Īspen, your job is not to protect and take care of girls. The one or two glimpses of Maxon are of more worth than 64 pages of Asspen thinking.

Maxon or Asspen? Diamonds or dung? Puppies or poop? Not exactly Sophie's Choice. I know you are not the brightest penny in the maudlin love jar, but giiiiirl. Number of times Asspen does something that does not involve moaning about America: 0Īmerica, please. Number of times Asspen is treated or portrayed like the sun shines from his every orifice: 10 Number of times Asspen risks America's life: 4 Number of times Asspen calls America 'my girl': 6 Asspen doesn't seem to realize he comes across this way (nor does the author, it seems), but for most of these 64 pages, I wanted nothing more than to punch him. Pots and kettles and douchebags, oh my! He doesn't seem to comprehend that in actuality, he is the one who has always mistreated America, the light of his life the fire of his loins and blah blah blah.Īnd what's worse, he has no idea how awful he is. The things he says about Maxon, the way he presumes to know him even though they've exchanged, what, a sentence? And yet somehow he has GREAT MYSTICAL INSIGHT into what a jerk he is. It is not evidence of 'passion' and 'great love' to risk your life for a few stolen moments with America. In actuality, he is self-centered, misogynistic, dim, arrogant, and basically just the worst. (Promise I'm not a murderer, NSA!)Īsspen has no substance besides moping over America and the various 'good guy' qualities Cass reminds us over and over that he possesses. And America was pining over Maxon, which is way more forgivable, since Maxon is the only character in this series that I don't have the urge to murder in various ways I shouldn't type here in case the NSA really is paying attention. 'But did you NOTICE America in that book? With the whining and the flip flopping and the pining over two boys? Insufferable!'Īhhh, yes, but see, Maxon was in that book.

'MORE pining?!' you are thinking if you also read The Elite: America Tries snd Fails to Make Decisions. I didn't particularly need to read it all over again with only or or two things added besides 1000% more pining (and wee little hints of REBELS REBELS LOOK ACTUAL PLOT MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE THIRD BOOK).

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