Grab Your Gun & Bring In The Cat

[redbrunja]

I recently finished reading Spirit & Dust by Rosemary Clement Moore which was very enjoyable, despite the fact that it:

1. has a love triangle


2. and the side I two people I wanted to hook up didn’t.

Seriously, the main character is a weeks-from-eighteen teen psychic whose hot handler with the FBI literally calls her “Jailbait” as an affectionate nick-name, is understanding and supportive about her talents, and their call and response code phrase for “I’m fine” is “what do you hear?” “nothing but the rain.”

AND INSTEAD OF BANGING THE FUCK OUT OF THAT DUDE AS SOON AS SHE TURNS EIGHTEEN, WHICH, TRUST ME, WAS A DAY MARKED ON BOTH OF THEIR CALENDARS, she ends up hooking up with the more age-appropriate ‘bad boy’ who spent the majority of the novel lying to her. Admittedly, he had good reasons, but still. Why waste your time with a lying bad boy when you could be nailing a hot FBI agent you work with?

Comments

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I read Spirit and Dust last summer, and when I started it, I was fully ready to start shipping the FBI handler with the teen psychic for all the reasons you mentioned, and so I was really confused about halfway in when I realized where the book was actually going. I ended up being okay with the teen bad boy, but her and the FBI handler would have been so much more fun. I'm glad you felt the same way, anyways, because I thought I was reading the book wrong or picking up on something that wasn't there. At least it wasn't just me!

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Oh, no, the author was being 100% deliberate about what she was doing with the subtext. I don't get WHY she teased teen psychi/FBI and then didn't deliver, but it certainly wasn't accidental.