Out of Spite, Out of Mind

Posted on 25 August 2017 by Scott Meyer

When you discover the world is a computer program, and you figure out that by altering the code you can time travel and perform acts that seem like magic, what can possibly go wrong Pretty much everything.Just ask Brit, who has jumped around in time with such abandon that she has to coexist with multiple versions of herself Now, Brit the Elder finds that her memories don t match Brit the Younger s And there s the small matter of a glitch that s making Brit the Elder s body fritz out Brit the Elder s ex boyfriend Phillip wants to help her, but he ll have to keep it secret from his current girlfriend, Brit the Younger, who can t stand her future self.Meanwhile, Martin is trying to protect Phillip from a relentless attacker he somehow hasn t noticed Gwen is angry because Martin accidentally proposed to her Gary tries to help the less fortunate, with predictably disastrous results and an old nemesis might have to be the one to save them all.In Out of Spite, Out of Mind, our fearless wizards discover the biggest glitch in their world s program may well be themselves 2018 Scott Meyer P 2018 Audible Originals, LLC Download Out of Spite, Out of Mind Author Scott Meyer – kino-fada.fr I wanted to love it but I couldn t Too much if they could just finish their sentence we could avoid all of this and the time travel and I m doing this because my future version did it for ridiculous and tedious Same thing over and over, seemed th...I am so furious with this book I can t see straight.Spoilers to follow.Just to make this clear, I loved this series I gave Fight and Flight four stars Luke Daniels is an outstanding narrator, and the first 84% of this book hovered between 4 5 stars It was well paced, not boring, kept my attention, and genuinely intrigued me.Reviewing isn t an exact science Sometimes I adjust my rating as I read If a book starts off low and rebounds, I try to split the difference In hundreds of reviews this I am...As a fan of the series and the narrator, I ll probably listen to books 1 3 again, but this book was a disappointment The time traveling was overdone and overly silly, while the characterizations relationship of Philip and Brit were one dimensional, untrue to the previous incarnations, and cruel.Dang that was a lot of drama I have no idea where Scott can go from the ending but I m still expecting 1I mean I see the threads but whaaa I felt happier about Martin and Gwen s relationship development The overall world is not focused as much...I am seeing a lot of reviews from people who don t like the ending I propose a different perspective When I completed this book, I was laying on my bed I had my headphones on, and I had spent the last few hours as the climax of the story unfolded with meticulous, agonizing certainty I listened as the characters I love treated each other like enemies, discarded each other like trash, and mocked each other over important events and emotional developments I was shaken It hurt As a writer, I I am seeing a lot of reviews from people who don t like the ending I propose a different perspective When I completed this book, I was laying on my bed I had my headphones on, a...A lot of fun I, like most fans, wasn t hugely in love with Book 4 So this was back in the normal vein of Books 1 3 My only complaint is that the women are frustratingly 2D Set in pro woman scenarios, characteristically, I find them shrewish and unlikeable, particularly when dealing with their romantic relationships view spoiler While I m glad Gwen and Martin figured things out, Brit was bitter and at times mean I don t mind that ...Time travel used as a Mcguffin is ALWAYS a bad idea AlwaysI ve been a fan of Meyers for awhile now and his magic series is always on my to buy list This book however was an example of why this kind of story is a bad idea Plot Brit uses time travel to solve every single problem she has Something goes wrong She attempts to fix it by time travel Something goes wrong She attempts to Ok you know what You got it by now right The whole book is a closed loop with Brit being the star...I m really torn on this one, but overall I m really disappointed.There are parts of this which make it a 2 star There s a whole lot of bad characterization which Really bothered me Characters regularly act in ways which don t make sense with what we know of them The female characters are spiteful and irrational and feel like strawman characters, which is especially galling since Brit is ostensibly the primary focus of this book The ending felt tacked on and though it shows direction for the I m really torn on this one, but overall I m really disappointed.There are parts of this which make it a 2 star There s a whole lot of bad characterization which Really bothered me Characters regularly act in ways which don t make sense with what we know of them The female characters are spiteful and irrational and feel like strawman characters, which is especially galling since Brit is osten...Thecomplex plot elements of this knotty narrative aren t entirely satisfying in their resolution, but generally this addition is a return to form after the disappointing fourth book and shows that the Magic 2.0 series hasn t run out of gas yet.I feel like after the slight down turn from last book, Scott completely made up for it with this masterpiece I couldn t stop listening to this, from the beginning I was hooked.It was just as funny as the first 3 for me, and honestly this might just take the place as my favorite in the series.

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25 August 2017

Scott Meyer