Armada Chapter 4: Zack’s Mom Is Super Hot
Before we dive into today’s chapter, there’s one thing from yesterday’s infodump chapter that I’d like to draw extra attention to, because it’s one thing in particular that drives me insane about...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 5: Eva Continues to Be Absurd
One With You Chapter 5 Eva tries to sleep in during her first day as a jobless free woman. Cary will not stand for this: “It’s after nine o’clock, lazybones,” he drawled, settling on his stomach with...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 6: Plot Puppy Crossover Spectacular
Long-time readers of the blog, you read that right. New readers of the blog, you’ll find out. One With You: Chapter 6 The chapter opens with Gideon and Angus listening to the audio from Eva’s...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 5: In a Twist of Fate, Zack Plays Armada
Armada Chapter 5 Zack tells us that his room is decorated with all of his dad’s old things. It’s funny because this book is also decorated with things that don’t belong to it. It makes me wonder if...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 6: Zack Plays a Different Video Game
Armada: Chapter 6 The brand new Armada mission starts with a rousing bit of – that’s right – Zack explaining more rules. I know I was hoping to get an entire page explaining that the game has a virtual...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 7: Anne Lucas Remains a Not-So-Threatening Threat
One With You Chapter 7: My hand shook as I poured freshly brewed coffee into three mugs. I couldn’t tell if that was because I was so pissed off or because I was afraid. Certainly, I was both. Being a...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 8: Some Poor A-Hole Has To Plan Gideon’s Bachelor Party
Spoilers. Try to read that before you read the title of today’s post. One With You: Chapter 8 Angus reveals that he searched Terrence Lucas’s office last night (hopefully you’re not interested in...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 7: Surprise! The Aliens are Real…Kind Of
Armada Chapter 7 Zack finds that his car has been keyed, and the likely culprit is that turd muffin from school. I hope the aliens kill that dude first. At school, Knotcher and his goons surround Zack,...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 8: Zack Is In The Secret Sci Fi Military Now
This chapter marks the start of Part 2 of the book, which is referred to in the book as Phase 2 (because alien invasions, which makes sense). This is probably more exciting if you’re actually reading...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 9: Eva Has a Super Hot Fantasy About Gideon
One With You Chapter 9 Cary shows Eva a sketch of a potential wedding dress, but she whines about it’s not right and time is running out. They have a very detailed discussion about why this dress is...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 10: The Honeymoon Can’t Just Be A Honeymoon Even
One With You: Chapter 10 Gideon and Eva prepare for their separate bachelor/ette parties. Meanwhile, Angus will be heading to Austin to look more into this “Eva’s mom is not Eva’s mom???” thing by...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 9: Zack Falls in Love Immediately
Zack and the other recruits (who he informs us are a very diverse group of people!) take an elevator down to a big auditorium. I also spotted people in business suits, fast food uniforms, surgical...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 10: Zack Explains The Book Explaining The Aliens
I just bought my copy of the new Harry Potter but can’t start reading it yet because I really should get this post done first. So if I seem extra angry at Armada today, that is probably part of the...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 11: Gideon Didn’t Actually Cheat, Problem Solved
Before Eva finds out about Gideon’s shocking photos, she fondly recalls when she started to become friends with Cary. She’d approach him after group therapy to say hi, he’d accuse her of trying to...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 12: Gideon’s Doing Pretty Ok, Acutally
One With You: Chapter 12 Gideon goes into the office to discuss top-secret information about the ongoing “Oh Shit, We’re Halfway Through The Last Book And We’re Out Of Plot, Oh Shit, Um, Uh, What If...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 11: The EDA Manipulates Everyone into Joining Them
Armada Chapter 11 After the video is over, a man gets on stage and everyone gasps: It was Admiral Archibald Vance, the cyclopean EDA commander who gave players their mission briefings in both Armada...
View ArticleArmada Chapter 12: Zack F***s Up
Armada: Chapter 12 The battle of Crystal Palace, as it came to be known, Well, great, now we know that the story doesn’t abruptly end in the middle of the book. was my first taste of real life-or-death...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 13: Gideon Pranks Eva. Oh, Gideon!
One With You Chapter 13: Eva tries to get Gideon to open up to her about how he’s feeling after confronting his mother. Not great, as you would imagine. Eva addresses this in a mature and impressive...
View ArticleOne With You Chapter 14: Gideon Lies To His Wife About Her Mom Dying
You read that right, and it is just as awful as you’re already thinking. One With You: Chapter 14 You may recall that the last chapter ended with Eva suddenly losing consciousness. My wife lay deathly...
View ArticleBBGT Back On The 25th!
Hey, everybody. Ariel and I are taking a week off. It would have seemed less odd if we took that week off within one single calendar week, but we’re splitting it up between the rest of this week and...
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