#AURGRHRHRHRHRH INSANE

[sunlitlemonade]

you been real quite since you finished skeleton key bestie 🤨 (or is it just that you haven't gotten around to reading eagle strike yet dfkjenrje) (only asking because i love your commentary. also because i was shrieking with laughter when you said you weren't ready for eagle strike, cus i don't think any of us ever are once we know what happens with yassen 😭)

No need to attack me like this nonny 💀

I have in fact finished Eagle Strike! The reason why I haven't given much - or rather any sajsajkla - commentary on it is because of the same reason I wasn't ready to reread it: it makes me insane :]

And YEAH!!! YASSEN!!!!! He's literally the sole reason why I'm so not normal about this book actually ngl. [years and years later I'm very much still in denial. Alex was concussed and delirious okay??? He was literally in no condition to judge whether Yassen is okay or not + the fact that we never find out what happens to Yassen's 'body'. Like Tulip told him that Henryk, the pilot, broke his neck on landing...... But we never get to know how Yassen was handled. ALSO find it hard to believe that my man wasn't wearing a bulletproof vest. At this point I'm convinced Horowitz just wanted Yassen out of the picture because had he been a part of the storyline going forward..... Alex would be with Scorpia or at least have never worked for MI6 again. And no, I don't mean in the sense that Yassen would convince Alex to. Nope. I just mean that Eagle Strike was a PERFECT set up for Alex to go looking for Scorpia. Because we see how MI6 doesn't care for Alex (Smithers being an exception), don't believe him, manipulate him and his friends and are overall just shitty to him. Yassen on the other hand genuinely cares for Alex and if he wouldn't be able to convince Alex to be part of the normal world again with his protection to keep MI6 away (it's easy to imagine since he did say he was retiring after Cray's stupid plan and was free to do whatever he wished to,,,, looking after Alex would be one of those things is something I like to believe) he would train him. Maybe. Or just not let MI6 get to him. Which would effectively end the series 💀 anyways sorry for that tangent-]

I have soooo many annotated parts and it would be a long ass post. I may or may not put them out sometime depending on how insane it makes me look skakaskjzjs. I gotta say tho, it made me smile to see someone actually likes my silly lil musings on the books hehe, thank you <3

Just started with Scorpia though and getting constantly reminded of why it was my favourite almost every single line.