Chapter 5
The meet and greet from the female
view. The first time I read this, I realized the following was important
information, foreshadowing if you will:
Not to mention, as soon as she locked eyes
with Fane she felt a weird tingling sensation across the top of her shoulders
and behind her neck.
Granted, you have no clue the first
time you read that it really is an indication of something physically changing
in Jacque, you just know it is relative. This is when her “marks” are being to form.
Jacque has to be pinched when it is
her turn to introduce herself to Fane because she is lost in her own internal
dialog over her reactions to Fane kissing her friends’ hands. She is completely
dumbfounded by how she feels, especially at her desire to growl.
When she finally does introduce
herself to Fane, she gets even more flustered when he takes her hand (that she
did not offer), kisses it all while she starts to hear the voice in her head
again.
Jacque, trying not to panic, quickly
ends the social gathering and herds the girls out the door. Lilly is really becoming
suspicious of Jacque’s behavior, but of course this is because Lilly has
figured out that Fane is a werewolf, and she must be trying to figure out how
that is going to fit in with her daughter.
Once in her room, Jacque wants to
know what the girls thought of Fane, and of course they thought he was hot. She
explains that she is freaking out, still hearing voices and still not
understanding all that is going on (note that she does not mention the sudden
jealousy or the need to growl).
Sally, ever the voice of reason,
asks a very valid question: “Have you tried talking back to the voice?” Jacque
has not done this for fear that it will just solidify her arrival to Crazy Town
(my summary, not actually from the book).
Both Jennifer and Sally assure
Jacque that she is not insane and they believe her (best friends ever!). The
three part ways with plans to get together again later that night.
Jacque tries to figure out what she
is feeling, and is baffled at how strongly she wants to be near Fane.
Lilly takes off to go work at her
bookstore, but not before both she and Jacque try to figure out what is going
on with the other one. Both of course just say they are “fine” blaming being
tired, or preoccupied for what is going on.
Jacque goes to take a nap listening
to Evanescence (she has good taste in music).
My Thoughts:
At this point you begin to notice
there is a lot of violence involved with these girls, lots of pinching,
slapping, and pulling of hair. Could this be a nod to The Three Stooges?
I tend to think that upon meeting
Fane, Lilly knew instantly he was a werewolf. I believe that up until that
moment, she had a feeling that something was going on, but wasn’t sure what it
was. Having lived with Dillon for so long, she would have recognized the
markings and certain behaviors i.e. the way he cocked his head when he didn’t
understand something.
The first time I read the series, I
caught some foreshadowing here and there, often times reading something in
another book would remind me of something I read in a previous one. However, the
more I read the books, the more I start to notice that there is a rhythm to the
stories. QL gives little insights into the future.
I’m beginning to think, and this may
just be the optimist in me, that there are hints to stories we have yet to
read. Some of them may come to fruition,
and some may not but it would appear (and again this is purely my speculation)
that QL leaves some things in the air to give herself the opportunity to write
if she so chooses.
Favorite Points:
Jacque felt a tingling when she
locked eyes with Fane
Jacque is hit with “an extremely
irrational wave of jealousy” and has to suppress the urge to growl
(The wolf inside is awakening)
Favorite Lines:
“First
Impressions?” Jacque finally prompted.
“Oh,
I don’t know, maybe something like, OH MY, stutter, drool, FREAKING, pant, deep
breathing, GOSH!” Jen spat.
Things We Learned:
- Jacque feels a weird tingling across the top of her shoulders and behind her neck
- Jacque thinks Fane would look sexy in a plastic bag
- Jacque is becoming possessive of Fane
- Jacque is becoming jealous of Fane’s attention to another female
- Jacque notices that she has an urge to growl
- Jacque notices that she has an overwhelming desire to be near Fane after she leaves him
- Lilly just recently hired staff to help at the bookstore
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