Vision in Silver p. 1-162

         From the beginning I didn't really know what to think about this book. I didn't really understand the first three chapters and all the different groups until we talked about it on class last week. Making a list of the characters helped me get more of a visual of who was who. Now, I'm starting to understand more but there's still a few things I'm confused about. I understand what's going on, but I don't really understand the point of why it's happening, like chapter 5. It stars on page 54 by saying, "The girl stumbled along the side of the road, looking for something, anything, she recognized from the binders filled with training images." Then by the end of the chapter she ends up dying by getting hit by a truck. I knew the Cassandra sangue girls were roaming around by themselves but I guess I really don't understand why this is happening or how everything connects. Like how does the girls wandering connect with Lizzie, or how does it connect with Simon wanting to get humans to live close to the terra indigene. I guess I feel like the plot of the story is jumping all over and I don't see how all the individual plots relate back to one another.I wish we started with the first book in the series instead of being thrown in the middle and reading book 3 of the series, but hopefully as I read on these questions will become more clear to me.

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  1. Ryan O'ConnorNovember 11, 2017 at 7:07 PM

    Reading this story is very confusing at first. It does jump to other parts of the story over and over again and they’re short but descriptive segments of the plot. The relationships between all characters is really hard to grasp without having notes and connecting all the characters together. The class discussions are helping me as well understand more parts of the book that I didn’t really get before and just read over and tried to ignore it with the details I obtained while reading over it the first time. Not sure how much better the first book would be over the 3rd book, they’re both confusing stories and written from the same author so the reading style would be the same. We would have to wait to get all the information we got in the first 3 chapters by reading whole books about them, and that doesn’t make as interesting of a story as this one does.

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  2. UnknownNovember 11, 2017 at 8:35 PM

    I have to agree that it's really confusing because we haven't read the books previous to Vision In Silver. As I've been reading, it's been really hard for me to piece everything together, and information is being thrown out everywhere. Really, much of it doesn't make any sense to me at all, and that's why I struggle so much with this book. I guess I wouldn't want to really read the whole series anyways, just because this type of writing style and genre isn't really my thing. I do think the book is interesting all on its own and has a really neat concept (not something I would be able to come up with), but the information is sometimes too much in this book and can be made really confusing for the readers.

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