The Predator

this shit was straight ass man.

the characters were weird as fuck - very much the vibe of when Edward watches Bella sleep/the forest ‘i know what you are' scene except that was their every interaction. this mans would just stare at the girl from a dark corner of the room and her inner monologue would be all ‘i know he's watching me... my kuchi is throbbing in morse code, translating his every movement to my nervous system.' likeee, EVERY SCENE BRO?!? what happened to HELLO? HOW ARE YOU? they could just not be normal. THIS HAPPENED LIKE 6 TIMES.

and the amount of unnecessary enemies-to-lovering was driving me INSANEEE. and the reason?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! SPOILER ALERT: this man's aversion to the FL was basically spawned from the fact that she didn't die in a kidnapping when she was a toddler but his sister did & then he made the executive decision to kill someone bc of a matter regarding this issue. LIKE??? WHAT WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO, BITCH? DIE?? GO BACK AND ASK HER KIDNAPPERS FROM 20 YEARS AGO TO ‘FINISH THE JOB'???? let's be so fr rn. AND ITS THE WAY THIS BITCH GOES TO APOLOGISEEEE??? FOR WHAT??? BREATHING?!?!?!?!?

thick as a mf brick bro. omfg.

and they were so edgy for no reason. I did not picture the ML as some hot brooding motorcyclist mafia man. no. i pictured him as fuckn tatted-up marilyn mansion bc this bitch was saurrr fookin emo & I just know he dyes his hair black and does a sick frickin side part in the mirror every night before he goes to bed listening to paramore. he literally said ‘you assume I have a heart'. whats more emo than that?

and the fml was so stupid man. THE CONFLICT OF THIS BOOK - AND I ASSUME THE NEXT BOOK BC IT WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO RESOLVED (WE'RE STILL ESSENTIALLY AS CLOSE TO SOLVING THE COMPLICATION AS WHEN THE PROBLEM FIRST AROSE) IS ALL BECAUSE HER DUMBASS COULDN'T RESIST AN ELEMENTARY DARE. yeah. her rando ass ex bf (which she'd had for a couple of weeks) simply dared her to make a MASSIVE, MILITARY-ASS VIRUS (just to see if she could??) to which she obliged and had the audacity to be surprised when this mans took off with the virus, selling it to the highest bidder or whateva.

like, it's simply amazing how this girl was written with the IQ of einstein but lacked the braincell capacity to use that brain she was gifted with.

this book astounded me. baffled me, even. much buffoonery was afoot here.