_The Other Lady Vanishes_, JAK spoilers
May. 12th, 2018 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutSecond in the Burning Cove series. Irene and Oliver make very brief appearances in the background.
Adelaide’s parents “died” in a mysterious lab explosion, leaving her an orphan, and easy prey for what in a very different kind of book would have been labeled a fortune hunter. Massey was pointed at Adelaide in part because the people who murdered HEY SPOILERS YOU KNOW THE DRILL her parents wanted to nab her for moderately confusing reasons as a test subject. She is whisked off to Rushbrook, which she escapes from, travels to Burning Cove where she summered with her parents when younger, changes her name and gets a job as a tearoom waitress.
There, she makes friends and develops a support system, including Raina, who I suspect will star in book 3, but might just remain a background character (she was _also_ a background character in book 1, which is sort of awesome). Raina and Luther are developing a relationship — also pretty awesome. The drug designers / dealers show up looking for Adelaide, but all kinds of confusing shenanigans ensue as various members of the drug ring start offing each other.
I pretty much always enjoy JAK, but I felt like this was a pretty strong one for her. The cast of characters was better developed than is sometimes the case. The back and forth rescuing is unusually plausible, in part because it is subtle. And there are so, so, so many moments that reminded me of _It Happened One Night_, a deeply problematic movie which I nevertheless totally adore.
Looking forward to the closing of the trilogy, but also looking forward to other JAK.
ETA: #17
Adelaide’s parents “died” in a mysterious lab explosion, leaving her an orphan, and easy prey for what in a very different kind of book would have been labeled a fortune hunter. Massey was pointed at Adelaide in part because the people who murdered HEY SPOILERS YOU KNOW THE DRILL her parents wanted to nab her for moderately confusing reasons as a test subject. She is whisked off to Rushbrook, which she escapes from, travels to Burning Cove where she summered with her parents when younger, changes her name and gets a job as a tearoom waitress.
There, she makes friends and develops a support system, including Raina, who I suspect will star in book 3, but might just remain a background character (she was _also_ a background character in book 1, which is sort of awesome). Raina and Luther are developing a relationship — also pretty awesome. The drug designers / dealers show up looking for Adelaide, but all kinds of confusing shenanigans ensue as various members of the drug ring start offing each other.
I pretty much always enjoy JAK, but I felt like this was a pretty strong one for her. The cast of characters was better developed than is sometimes the case. The back and forth rescuing is unusually plausible, in part because it is subtle. And there are so, so, so many moments that reminded me of _It Happened One Night_, a deeply problematic movie which I nevertheless totally adore.
Looking forward to the closing of the trilogy, but also looking forward to other JAK.
ETA: #17