Oversight

Six: “I'm impenetrable”
Holden: “...that's cool, I'm a bottom anyway”
Six: “That's not what I meant but that's good as well.”

Note: this is not how the story goes

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★★★★☆ 3,5 stars for this story of accepting hurtful realities and finding things you didn't know you wanted

I received a free copy via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

This story is the second installment in The Community series, so if you haven't read Insight be warned, here be SPOILERS. Perhaps, I tried to keep it relatively spoiler free.



Oversight continues around the point where Insight leaves us but this time we get the story from Holden Payne's point of view. He wasn't exactly one of my favourites from book one, so I wasn't all that excited for his story. And to be honest his character annoyed the shit out of me from time to time.

After the watchdog Holden's douchebag father send is now out of the picture he sends someone new to the club to keep an eye on Holden.

Sixtus. An impenetrable (yes, you got it, he won't be penetrated, at least not physically) who is immune to psychic powers. Holden is still shaken up by all the things that happened in the last couple months and when Holden's father seems to want to blame the whole incident on him and one of Holden's friend's disappears he is forced to confront a reality he isn't quite ready to accept.

The overall story was enjoyable, but good lord Holden can be so annoying for a 30-year-old person who has at least had some life experience! Boy, I can understand that you don't want to see the thing you grew up in as evil or bad but there comes a point where the denial is so thick it must be suffocating you. It wouldn't be that bad if Holden was a real fanatic, I would have been frustrated but it would have been more understandable. Holden admitted that he knows there are some bad parts in the Community. That makes his apparent inability to see reason and question things so much more frustrating. Especially since he knows that The Farm isn't all sunshine and roses.

Well, enough about that, let's get to Six and Holden. Their interactions were nice and I really liked Six. Their relationship made more sense when you got to know some of the back story as well. Six's point of view would have been fascinating. To witness his changing demeanor towards Holden, but oh well. The third book is gonna be about Chase, so that's good enough for me.

All in all a satisfying continuation of The Community series and I'm excited to see how Sightless is gonna continue with imprisoned Chase, the ex-Comm and everything else.