"2. Why bother with the gas-card? Nora's too stupid to figure out who sent it (being close to Patch ruins your brain, so just snatch her when she's home by herself (where's the mother in all of this?)."
The gas card serves no purpose after this, save being brought up by the Big Bad when he's doing his end-of-book gloating. Nora comes nowhere close to solving it, so there's not much point in it at all. And yes, it makes NO SENSE AT ALL for said Big Bad to not just kill her now. In fact, she even ASKS why. The answer sucks, and I'll be ripping into it when that point comes.
The mother is out of town for work, which is the usual way to get rid of her for plot-related reasons. She's pretty much conveniently missing until the start of the next book, so don't get too fussed about her.
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The gas card serves no purpose after this, save being brought up by the Big Bad when he's doing his end-of-book gloating. Nora comes nowhere close to solving it, so there's not much point in it at all. And yes, it makes NO SENSE AT ALL for said Big Bad to not just kill her now. In fact, she even ASKS why. The answer sucks, and I'll be ripping into it when that point comes.
The mother is out of town for work, which is the usual way to get rid of her for plot-related reasons. She's pretty much conveniently missing until the start of the next book, so don't get too fussed about her.