Previously, on Sire Book Club…
Spoiler warning: these posts are (obviously) going to be spoiler heavy, so if you haven’t read the book yet, but plan to, be careful.
Also, I don’t want to spoil things from people who are reading along with us, so please don’t talk about things that happen in latter chapters. Once these chapter-by-chapter posts are done, I’ll do one last, whole-book post where we can talk about anything that didn’t fit into a particular chapter.
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Michael McKenna: Hi, everyone!
Everyone: Dies.
Michael McKenna: Hi, everyone!
Two More Werewolves: Die.
Angelica: …I’m running out of werewolves.
Michael McKenna: Hi Angelica! I was thinking, you’re probably sick of seeing my face, and I’m really not sick of seeing Caitlin’s face, so why don’t I leave town with her?
Angelica: Well, that’s one option. Alternately, I could just murder her.
Caitlin Manning: Wibble.
Michael McKenna: Super vampire kicking Angelica’s ass powers-
Angelica: Super vampire being older than this dumbass kid and kicking his ass powers activate!
Michael McKenna: …That went differently in my head.
Angelica: So, what say you murder Caitlin for me now?
Michael McKenna: Go fuck yourself?
Angelica: Loooook into my eeeeyes</dracula>
Michael McKenna: Go fuck yourself with a rusty pole?
Angelica: Sigh. Fine, we’ll do this the hard way.
Wow, our young Michael IS racking up a score. He did a real number on Liam’s butt monkey brigade of were-mooks, and I’m a little disappointed Queen Angelica THE big Bad doesn’t employ a better class of muscle.
And I was also hoping that we’re not going to find out Michael’s mother was a virgin and his dad was Anakin Skywalker or some shit. ‘Cause he’s a baby kicking serious ass. He even found time to make a penis joke in amid the mayhem!
“Fencing was a game of seconds, but she moved in fractions.*” -I reserve the right to call that back later.
So Michael could NOT resist her compulsion earlier, when she ordered him to work on her hydraulics, but he WAS able to resist her order to kill Caitlin, even after having been run through (again). He’s taking a level in badass per page.
The STUbies’ saving grace is that Angelica hasn’t read The Overlord List.
Hi Brian,
I am going to address the sad-ass werewolves in Book Two. Like we’ve said before, the only wolves willing to work for a vampire tend to be the omegas of the pack.
Angelica is faster – and has faster reflexes – than Michael, but that doesn’t mean she can’t be caught off-guard. It’s kind of like how Alexis … does that thing, later on in the book. The element of surprise is key.
I think Michael’s ability to overcome Angelica’s compulsion is a mixture of him having more resolve – he’s gone from her kinda-willing lover to wanting her dead – and Angelica’s command being so abhorrent to him.
And, yes, if Angelica had just gone ahead and murdered the STUbies, things would have been a lot easier for her.