Also, I listened to the audio book edition, and there is terrible, overdramatic music dubbed in at certain parts that drops an already bad book into C-grade horror movie territory. And when a character "shoots the cuffs" of his windbreaker? Who wears cuff links on a windbreaker? And ok, a 12 year old laying eggs is a little bit of a stretch, but the idea that each egg is 3-4 lbs and nobody noticed she was pregnant? Two 3-4 lb eggs are equal to or larger than a regular human baby, and would create just as big of a lump. And when recent IQ tests are mentioned that were apparently administered when a client was unconscious? What? And when there are snipers, and then they are called off because it was just a drill? A drill in a place where the characters are never expected to be again? What kind of contrived suspense and then cheap cop-out is that? And when the wound of a dead person is still pumping out blood And when there are riflemen shooting at the kids, and they shoot down a plane (with a regular rifle, not an anti aircraft gun) and then when the kids fly down to confront the villain, suddenly the riflemen just disappear? Like the fact that Frannie tells this story as a narrator to an audience, except when there are perspective switches to characters who tell the story in more conventional third person. There was bad writing and overblown language, but the huge problems with details in this book were impossible to ignore. I've never before read such a ridiculous, poorly crafted book with such blatant mistakes.
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