![]() The machine is irrevocably broken and Constance goes off to live in the time she belongs (they did mention is this book that she is now aging normally.) This would free up Pendergast and Coldmoon to go off on a new mystery and continue to be the wonderful super agents we have grown to know and love! Who am I kidding? The reason P & C made this is a trilogy is so that Pendergast could chase his super hero ninja lady love through time □ On the other hand, and I know this won’t happen, P & C could use this first book as a means to make this a convenient way to end the Constance character. There will be little oxygen left in the vicinity to develop Coldmoon the way he could be. ![]() That leads me to believe that P & C intend for him to follow Pendergast through the next two books like a side kick, but with the whole purpose of the books being “the search for beloved Constance.” And she will be the continued center of attention. Did you notice that he never got into his Uber, went to the airport and headed for his new Colorado posting? He was there when the doctor arrived, which could have been days or weeks later. It is just detracting from what we came to love about our quirky Agent Pendergast.įunny you should mention Coldmoon being just a dim companion. The love interest just isn’t working in my opinion. Develop Coldmoon more or bring back Vinnie. Enough already with the sexual tension and the constant focus on Constance, who they are devoting more time and energy to than Pendergast’s adventures, mysteries, and other secondary characters. He is not supposed to be a doting boyfriend or a family man. And now we are supposed to change our focus from all the things we love about eccentric, super agent Pendergast to him being almost catatonic about Constance leaving and him chasing her in time for the next two books? I think P & C have lost their way a bit and have forgotten that Pendergast is the reason we come to this series of books and it’s because of the plethora of new and exciting adventures and serial killers (his specialty.) If he spends the next two books pining and chasing after Constance, one of my least favorite characters, I’m afraid this winning formula will suffer. I mean, didn’t she just use super human strength and other worldly ninja skills and off the charts intellect to save Pendergast in the last novel? And now, I’ll be darned, she did it again in this very next installment. We have always loved the scientific aspects of the series and consider the Pendergast novels as “the thinking person’s suspense thriller.” But the time travel was just a bridge too far, especially because they set the whole thing up to showcase the invincible Constance Green for an entire trilogy. We both thought the time travel angle was a little too far fetched. My husband and I just finished the audio book this weekend. Cooper and I was expecting a more basic premise, standard investigation, Pendergast traveling mentally into the past, unearthing some conspiracy, that sort of thing and although (as I said previously) I liked the book, I’m a bit reprehensive of what the other 2 books in the trilogy will be about. I was super excited when I learned that it was going to cover the disappearance of D.B. And I’m so very tired of the forced romance between her and Pendergast, they just don’t gel for me and, honestly, if he’s to have a romantic partner in these books, not that I think it’s required at all, it should have been Viola all along. For all the books we’ve known her there’s little to no change, no development, she’s the same person with an ever-increasing emotional baggage, swaying to either brother when convenient and that’s it. She’s just there, either angry at Pendergast, depressed or homicidal. The only thing I liked was the fact that Constance is going in a separate direction, as P & C just couldn’t find a good place for her in the books IMO. ![]() |SPOILERS for Netflix’s Castlevania Season 2|>! “Hey, that Castlevania show on Netflix had a cool dimension traveling storyline with a man searching for his loved one in a corridor of endless dimensions/parallel worlds, let’s do that!” !< Maybe P & C have grown tired of the same formula or a serial killers/deranged or not/ and figured let’s grab some ideas from elsewhere regardless if they make sense in the universe of our books. I did enjoy it for the most part, but I felt as if it was going too outside the boundaries set in prior books. We've seen in previous books (Relic, Reliquary, Wheel of Darkness to name a few) that the supernatural exists and that in some cases the progress of technology has gone beyond ours, but this took the cake. Just finished Bloodless and I wanted to discuss it with other fans of the books.
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