How could such a strongly feminist author create a character like this? Pierce always needs John to rescue her and she always flips between hating him and loving him.
Pierce is so bad that I keep getting this strange feeling Meg Cabot wrote a satire piece without telling anyone. She’s supposed to be so kind, caring and delicate but she really just comes off as a Mary Sue who can’t do anything for herself. I really, truly loathe this idiotic main character. Her Abandon Trilogy feels sexist because Pierce can never figure anything out on her own and the characters are so inconsistent that it almost feels like a YA parody. What the heck was Meg Cabot thinking? Her Airhead trilogy was amazing and had both strong male and female characters with a plot that took a lot of twists and turns but made sense. And yet no book has stumped us as much as Underworld. Smith told Pierce that she and John were meant for each other in the first book then discourages their relationship in the second book? And what was with nobody having a problem with Pierce coming back from being ‘kidnapped’ two days later and showing up at Coffin Fest?īetween the two of us we probably read around 300 books per year. Me: Then in the second book she hates him in the beginning, then loves him again, hates him again and then has sex with him and decides she loves him and wants to spend the rest of her life with him? Me: So she hates John, then loves him at the end of the first book then goes back to hating him in the second book? So I tried to figure things out with my friend and we had a conversation that went like this ( SPOILERS!):
It’s not often that I don’t understand the plot of a book, especially a contemporary Young Adult novel. Some are so unhappy with where they ended up after leaving the Underworld, they’ve come back as Furies, intent on vengeance…on the one who sent them there and on the one whom he loves.īut while Pierce might be safe from the Furies in the Underworld, far worse dangers could be lurking for her there…and they might have more to do with its ruler than with his enemies.Īnd unless Pierce is careful, this time there’ll be no escape. Her captor, John Hayden, claims it’s for her own safety.
Seventeen-year-old Pierce Oliviera isn’t dead.īut she is being held against her will in the dim, twilit world between heaven and hell, where the spirits of the deceased wait before embarking upon their final journey. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.
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