Don't usually do reviews, but Dante moved me to write something.
If I travelled back through time and told 13 year old me about certain things in this story, young me would say, "YES! That is just so RIGHT!"
The two things in particular are Dante [spoiler]crashing the big thing into the other big thing (still trying to avoid spoilers)[/spoiler] and[spoiler] Person A shooting Person B, as was focused on this week.[/spoiler] These things are so perfect, that now I know about them, they seem obvious. Yet before they happened, I didn't see them coming at all. And that is a sign of amazing writing.
[spoiler]One thing that didn't quite gel with me is the explanation of how it happened, in that I didn't feel it was needed. As I was reading, I was thinking, yes, that works, bloody heck that works. Then you get the explanation of Dante having tinkered with the settings of the gun, and I thought, really? He could do that all along? Why didn't Dimitri or others tinker with it for their own ends? I would have thought that White Army tech was beyond everyone in this dimension, and that is why nobody has had a chance to alter it. [/spoiler]
Fortunately, there are two options open here:
1. [spoiler]That Dante was capable of *just enough* tinkering to get it to the very similar genetic code needed. A small degree of tinkering is possible, but not enough to give it to anyone else.[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]This is unreliable narration, and the account in the memoirs is inaccurate. In fact, the plan was all improvised, and people were winging it on a hope and a prayer, and the gun just worked in her hands, because they share enough DNA. I much prefer this option, as it has the symbolism that Dante is all his mum and none of his dad. [/spoiler]
Also, if Dimitri wanted Lulu dead instantly, those critters could have stripped her to the bone in seconds. Dimitri likes playing the long game. He likes killing people slowly, or even keeping them alive for later use. Last we saw of her before this, she had all her flesh, and her weapons crest healing factor (We have seen that Dimitri turning off the crests has a very visual effect.) So, would have been surprised if she was dead, rather than that she has survived.
If I travelled back through time and told 13 year old me about certain things in this story, young me would say, "YES! That is just so RIGHT!"
The two things in particular are Dante [spoiler]crashing the big thing into the other big thing (still trying to avoid spoilers)[/spoiler] and[spoiler] Person A shooting Person B, as was focused on this week.[/spoiler] These things are so perfect, that now I know about them, they seem obvious. Yet before they happened, I didn't see them coming at all. And that is a sign of amazing writing.
[spoiler]One thing that didn't quite gel with me is the explanation of how it happened, in that I didn't feel it was needed. As I was reading, I was thinking, yes, that works, bloody heck that works. Then you get the explanation of Dante having tinkered with the settings of the gun, and I thought, really? He could do that all along? Why didn't Dimitri or others tinker with it for their own ends? I would have thought that White Army tech was beyond everyone in this dimension, and that is why nobody has had a chance to alter it. [/spoiler]
Fortunately, there are two options open here:
1. [spoiler]That Dante was capable of *just enough* tinkering to get it to the very similar genetic code needed. A small degree of tinkering is possible, but not enough to give it to anyone else.[/spoiler]
2. [spoiler]This is unreliable narration, and the account in the memoirs is inaccurate. In fact, the plan was all improvised, and people were winging it on a hope and a prayer, and the gun just worked in her hands, because they share enough DNA. I much prefer this option, as it has the symbolism that Dante is all his mum and none of his dad. [/spoiler]
Also, if Dimitri wanted Lulu dead instantly, those critters could have stripped her to the bone in seconds. Dimitri likes playing the long game. He likes killing people slowly, or even keeping them alive for later use. Last we saw of her before this, she had all her flesh, and her weapons crest healing factor (We have seen that Dimitri turning off the crests has a very visual effect.) So, would have been surprised if she was dead, rather than that she has survived.
