Talk:Book 7: Flashback/@comment-74.140.2.76-20190115201154

First off, spoilers ahead for Flashback!!!!

Second off, this is something I've kinda been thinking about for a while now and I am in no way trying to bash Shannon Messenger.

Okay, so pretty much I think that Flashback was the worst Keeper book. Half of the book seemed to be filler. There wasn't much that happened the entire time that there in the healing room. In addition, any information and training the characters did during this part was pretty much useless. Sophie couldn't investigate her new found memories because the shadow vapor wouldn't let her. I was kind of frustrated that we got so close to finally having some kind of answers but we were just pushed away from them. That seems to be a reoccurring theme in these books. There are so many questions and no answers. I understand in books there is supposed to unanswered questions that the readers try to solve but the thing is there are so many unanswered questions in these books and instead of trying to answer them we just get bombarded with more information that doesn't answer our questions. For example, instead of trying to find out Neverseen's plan or revealing who Sophie's parents are, we're given information on trolls and how their babies are made. I understand that this was supposed to clarify what the Vacker legacy was, but it was frustrating to be fed all this other information to explain it.

That brings me to another problem that I, and many others, have been frustrated with and that is the 'book time' for characters. Characters like Dex and Biana are considerably less in the book than they used to be. If this book was supposed to answer the question about the Vacker legacy, why was Biana brought up so few times in the book? She rarely visits Sophie and there is hardly any character development from her after her injuries in Nightfall.

Lastly, one pet peeve of mine with writing is when authors write in the same scene/situation many different times in a book. That happened so many times in Flashback. For one, all of the training they did was pointless because, just like the beginning of the book, they were trapped in Ruy's forcefields One, the same exact situation was repeated and two, all training the Keeper gang did during the book was absolutely useless. In addition, Tam joining the Neverseen really irked me because Keefe had already done the same thing, and Jolie. I understand his situation was different, but still, the same situation has been repeated three times.

Again, I'm not trying to be rude to Shannon Messenger but it's just frustrating to see this great series that I love kinda flop in a book. Still, I'm looking forward to the next book :) Do you guys share the same frustrations as I do?