Visser like, needs an extra fifty pages, to me. And then it would be perfection. Right now it's just really really goddamn good. But then again, the entire V1 plot needs a bunch of added material, especially #45 and no I will never get over that being the shortest book in the series.
Personally, I think that played a huge factor in why she picked Eva. She sort of just thought she could swap mothers/wives for each other, since they must all be the same, right? And she still didn't understand it, and wanted to understand it, but never really figured out how.
The other thing is that though we see very little of Eva in the series, she's incredibly strategic, and at points in Visser is piecing things together faster than Edriss can. And she espouses that 'free or dead' mentality that Edriss admired so much in Allison. We also know that Eva broke Edriss' control at least a few times ("don't join the military", "no, you have to kill her", and Peter mentions that it seemed like Eva was struggling with something before she died). So I think Edriss liked the challenge Eva presented, and that's why she kept her as her primary hosts.
Side note: the bit about Edriss keeping watch on her children through other hosts? How many other hosts did this biatch have? So much AWESOME fridge horror as to what all her other hosts did while she was running around in one of her warm bodies.
Great point about the coke, too. I do think Edriss represents a lot of the darker parts of humanity, which again, makes her the flip to Aftran, who is 'saved' through humanity while Edriss just gets more and more depraved and petty than she already was.
I wish I could take credit for the Allison/Hildy reading, but someone on AIM from trans9 suggested it and then I was all "that's brilliant!" and totally kiped it.
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Date: 2010-11-02 12:13 am (UTC)and no I will never get over that being the shortest book in the series.Personally, I think that played a huge factor in why she picked Eva. She sort of just thought she could swap mothers/wives for each other, since they must all be the same, right? And she still didn't understand it, and wanted to understand it, but never really figured out how.
The other thing is that though we see very little of Eva in the series, she's incredibly strategic, and at points in Visser is piecing things together faster than Edriss can. And she espouses that 'free or dead' mentality that Edriss admired so much in Allison. We also know that Eva broke Edriss' control at least a few times ("don't join the military", "no, you have to kill her", and Peter mentions that it seemed like Eva was struggling with something before she died). So I think Edriss liked the challenge Eva presented, and that's why she kept her as her primary hosts.
Side note: the bit about Edriss keeping watch on her children through other hosts? How many other hosts did this biatch have? So much AWESOME fridge horror as to what all her other hosts did while she was running around in one of her warm bodies.
Great point about the coke, too. I do think Edriss represents a lot of the darker parts of humanity, which again, makes her the flip to Aftran, who is 'saved' through humanity while Edriss just gets more and more depraved and petty than she already was.
I wish I could take credit for the Allison/Hildy reading, but someone on AIM from trans9 suggested it and then I was all "that's brilliant!" and totally kiped it.