Please bring Lois back or at least give Clark something more positive to think about than recurring nightmares!
Hmm ...
This is a fabulous story! Lots of angst, action, and intrigue for three books. You have been posting for nearly a year and it still feels like there is a LOT more to come.
Yes, there is, though real life keeps getting in the way of writing as much as I'd like.
Matilda has been through havoc and back. Surely her brother must have understood why she acted the way she did and love her for all the sacrifices she has done to keep him and the remnants of her family alive. Sam does not sound like much of a brother.
He's one of those people who sees the world in terms of black and white, rather than shades of gray. He'll come up again later in the story.
Why do I get the feeling that her child is alive?
That's what Matilda hopes. Like many a mother of a kidnapped child, she hopes that her child is alive and well and with people who love them, rather than dead and forgotten.
Marcius is more than what he appears to be on the surface. Clark was given quite and education from Haver that evening. Nothing is as it seems for the Capitolites or the folks in the districts.
The impression that the people in the districts have of the Capitolites is that they're all wealthy, shallow, and obsessed with useless things -- which isn't quite true. The Capitolites often think the people of the districts are stupid, barbaric, and unappreciative of what the Capitol does for them, which also isn't quite true.
[quite]A house of cards ready to collapse.[/quote]
As Snow tells Katniss in 'Catching Fire', it's very fragile. Unfortunately, the things done to try to maintain stability (like the Hunger Games) create resentment that eventually bubbles over into rebellion.
Cold, calculating, and he knows exactly what weaknesses to exploit to get people to do what he wants.
Clark needs to turn to his writing...
He needs to do something, because things are pretty bad for him right now.
