Amari and the Great Game

4.5

I just want to hold Amari and let her know all will be ok.

Amari and the Great Game picks up where it left off but a year later. Meaning nothing has changed since the end of the last summer. For the most part I wasn't as pissed as much as my bookish friends were about all the craziness that was happening to Amari. Amari's whole existence leads me to believe that the craziness is a given. What did piss me off is how it doesn't seem like she has anyone at all that she can trust. This is most definitely at the feet of the author. I could absolutely be cynical because fake life and real life has taught me to be so but I didn't even trust Elsie, Amari's best friend. Now that I think of it, I didn't trust Amari's brother in book one. I don't think the author is doing enough to convince me of these friendships. Do I want Amari to have a small membership in the trust circle? Yes, I do. So make me feel that they are trusting!! At this point I don't even trust the walls, floor, windows and dust let alone the humans/beings in this story.

That's it. Amari has to prove herself and that proof will come with suffering. It wouldn't be a fantasy if the stakes aren't high. With that said, I want her to win because she is a good person. Good people deserve to have wins.