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The writing is slowly degrading, and we're not even a quarter of the way through the book. I've tried my best to enunciate properly, but it's just so goddamn hard sometimes.
Chapter Six - Friday Morning
Thoughts: Gloria, honey, that's not how light works.
Coping Mechanism: mix yourself a mudslide and pray that the siblings are caught in one.
Chapter Seven - The Stalagmite Statue
Thoughts: I have no idea what the point of this chapter is. Disturbing the statue doesn't change anything. It doesn't open a portal because the Hoodmen were already in the human world, implying that the portal has been there the whole fucking time. The only thing this chapter manages to accomplish is adding a couple hundred words to the novel length and allowing Gloria to show off what she learned at home-school this week.
Coping Mechanism: drink a few more mudslides and pray even harder goddamn you.
Chapter Eight - Eyes, Ears And Voices
Thoughts: I made an attempt at the Mr. B Natural voice. I felt it was appropriate given the situation. Are the direct lifts from Narnia hitting you over the head yet or does Gloria need to change the grasshopper's name to "Mr. Tumnas" and be done with it?
Coping Mechanism: I don't know, jello shots? The Narnia vibes are making me think of Turkish Delight, but that's non-alcoholic.
Chapter Nine - The Grasshopper
Thoughts: this did not need to be its own chapter. It could easily have been added to the end of the previous chapter with no changes to the flow of the story. I also noticed that Gloria has gotten really heavy on the repetition. Entire paragraphs are now copy/pasted in an attempt to lengthen the book. Again, we're not even a quarter of the way through and the Teschs are already cutting corners for that sweet wunderkind praise.
Coping Mechanism: treat yourself to a Grasshopper cocktail (what? I can't be original all the goddamn time).
Chapter Ten - The Spy
Thoughts: the snake character actually shows up in the trailer, though they changed her to a normal human woman because CGI and crap editing and such. She does this really odd pseudo-accent so I decided to pay the poor actress a homage by re-creating it here.
Joey is also a giant dumbass.
Coping Mechanism: keep chugging beers until you can replicate the snake woman's speech impediment without conscious effort.
Chapter Eleven - Libertine
Thoughts: Gloria gives us no explanation as to why these two imbeciles have to go to the lagoon. There's no declaration of danger or outlining of a great quest. A bunch of talking animals tell the dumbasses to go to the lagoon and they think it's the best idea ever, no questions asked. I'm rooting for Apollyon at this point.
Coping Mechanism: take a break from this bullshit and go watch the classic film "The Blue Lagoon". Then hit yourself over the head with your empty bottles of alcohol until you forget that you just watched "The Blue Lagoon" because that movie is fucking terrible.