/I also find it rather hypocritical that Vee drags Nora off to spy on Patch and proposes setting up a webcamera in his neighbor’s home just because she thinks he’s suspicious (that, and it would be fun), yet when Nora has reason to be worried about someone she just belittles the idea./
I just find this terribly contrived (and considering that this entire story is just one big mess of contrivances, that’s saying something). Yes, make Vee all intrusive and nosy when it comes to dealing with Patch, but make her completely unconcerned about Elliot. She’s not even interested in him – she’s interested in Jules, isn’t she? – so why is she all of a sudden insisting that Elliot is innocent?
/At that moment, Nora realizes that after her room had been broken into, the article she printed on Elliot’s investigation went missing. She freaks out and tells Vee about it and how Elliot must have been the person to break into her room to steal it back./
But why would Elliot need to steal it back? Nora got the article off the *Internet.* If she wanted to present the article to the police as proof of Elliot’s guilt, all she’d need to do was to open the page on the Web and print out the article again. It’s not like it was an old newspaper clipping that couldn’t be replaced.
/I have to wonder, if Vee is so certain that Patch beat her within an inch of her life, why isn't she more concerned that he keeps hanging around with Nora? If I was attacked so viciously by someone and then saw that my best friend was being shoved towards that same person in school, I'd be very concerned that hello, my best friend might end up Victim #2! Especially since Vee knows that Nora was most likely the target of that attack!/
And if she really did suspect Patch, she’d report him to the principal or another authority figure. But she doesn’t, because she is a stupid, *stupid* plot convenience who only exists to get Nora into trouble.
/Of course the instant he touches her wrist to feel her pulse, her heart rate goes way up./
So, what have we learned today? If a boy keeps making sexually inappropriate comments to a girl, despite her obvious humiliation and repeated attempts for him to stop, he’s really just in love with her and as long as he’s a “sexy bad-boy,” she should take his sexual harassment as nothing more than light-hearted banter that gets her heart racing.
Go drown in lava, Patch. And shame on you, Ms. Fitzpatrick, for subjecting your main character to such a degrading ordeal.
/She then brings up that she knows that Nora was ridden home from the amusement park on Saturday and that she let Patch into her house./
And she knows this…how? Does Nora ever ask her how she knows?
/Maybe she just wants to keep you away from the dude harassing and stalking you! I hate Nora’s idiocy and I hate that Fitzpatrick had Miss Greene be a therapist. That’s all this book needs, after all. Tell the readers that it’s suspicious and weird for your therapists to tell you to stay away from your stalker/
I love how Miss Green is “suspicious” and “has an agenda” for knowing where Nora was, but we’re supposed to still swoon over Patch even though he also brought up personal information that implied that he was also stalking Nora, forced her to ride home with him, and forced himself into her house.
Give me a break, Nora (and subsequently, Ms. Fitzpatrick). If Miss Green was a good-looking guy who was telling Nora all of this information, Nora would have fallen all over him as stupidly as she does for Patch. But no, this woman, who dares to be the only person in this book that tells Nora to watch out for the abusive and controlling creep who’s been sexually harassing Nora and stalking her, “has an agenda.” The only person who has a realistic reaction to Patch’s atrocious behavior and tries to help Nora is a “suspicious” person who’s set up to be Evil.
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Date: 2011-07-28 08:32 pm (UTC)I just find this terribly contrived (and considering that this entire story is just one big mess of contrivances, that’s saying something). Yes, make Vee all intrusive and nosy when it comes to dealing with Patch, but make her completely unconcerned about Elliot. She’s not even interested in him – she’s interested in Jules, isn’t she? – so why is she all of a sudden insisting that Elliot is innocent?
/At that moment, Nora realizes that after her room had been broken into, the article she printed on Elliot’s investigation went missing. She freaks out and tells Vee about it and how Elliot must have been the person to break into her room to steal it back./
But why would Elliot need to steal it back? Nora got the article off the *Internet.* If she wanted to present the article to the police as proof of Elliot’s guilt, all she’d need to do was to open the page on the Web and print out the article again. It’s not like it was an old newspaper clipping that couldn’t be replaced.
/I have to wonder, if Vee is so certain that Patch beat her within an inch of her life, why isn't she more concerned that he keeps hanging around with Nora? If I was attacked so viciously by someone and then saw that my best friend was being shoved towards that same person in school, I'd be very concerned that hello, my best friend might end up Victim #2! Especially since Vee knows that Nora was most likely the target of that attack!/
And if she really did suspect Patch, she’d report him to the principal or another authority figure. But she doesn’t, because she is a stupid, *stupid* plot convenience who only exists to get Nora into trouble.
/Of course the instant he touches her wrist to feel her pulse, her heart rate goes way up./
So, what have we learned today? If a boy keeps making sexually inappropriate comments to a girl, despite her obvious humiliation and repeated attempts for him to stop, he’s really just in love with her and as long as he’s a “sexy bad-boy,” she should take his sexual harassment as nothing more than light-hearted banter that gets her heart racing.
Go drown in lava, Patch. And shame on you, Ms. Fitzpatrick, for subjecting your main character to such a degrading ordeal.
/She then brings up that she knows that Nora was ridden home from the amusement park on Saturday and that she let Patch into her house./
And she knows this…how? Does Nora ever ask her how she knows?
/Maybe she just wants to keep you away from the dude harassing and stalking you! I hate Nora’s idiocy and I hate that Fitzpatrick had Miss Greene be a therapist. That’s all this book needs, after all. Tell the readers that it’s suspicious and weird for your therapists to tell you to stay away from your stalker/
I love how Miss Green is “suspicious” and “has an agenda” for knowing where Nora was, but we’re supposed to still swoon over Patch even though he also brought up personal information that implied that he was also stalking Nora, forced her to ride home with him, and forced himself into her house.
Give me a break, Nora (and subsequently, Ms. Fitzpatrick). If Miss Green was a good-looking guy who was telling Nora all of this information, Nora would have fallen all over him as stupidly as she does for Patch. But no, this woman, who dares to be the only person in this book that tells Nora to watch out for the abusive and controlling creep who’s been sexually harassing Nora and stalking her, “has an agenda.” The only person who has a realistic reaction to Patch’s atrocious behavior and tries to help Nora is a “suspicious” person who’s set up to be Evil.