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Mark Arbour, please send JJ into the army; anyone that can so successfully transmit poison across a continent could be a usefull weapon of war. There's the side benefit that he may die..... Signed Not-a-fan-of-JJ

Awesome writing. Very scary. Stalkers are sick people. And generally the police while well meaning, are not that helpful.

It's only taken me almost a decade, but I get the feeling Mark Arbour likes torturing his characters!😘

Be bloody careful what you wish for; I am not sure its beyond our author to torture us by sending JJ back to Napoleonic England.....

I agree, but while not wishing to defend Marc, or Stef's reaction, I do think that Mark Arbour has written Stef as a man of his generation and experience; that the sex was enjoyable mitigated the "coercion". While not excusing his attitude, it is in line with many of his (unreconstructed) generation. This doesn't make him any less wrong, it just suggests why he holds the attitude. Good writing, as ever, challenging readers! Thanks👍😘

It would be a far better world if sentiments like " think about your inheritance" were just plot drivers in good stories. Sadly even in this day and age people using or attempting to use money to control others is far too common. Great read. Thanks.

Sometimes it's so boring to read a story that just so like my home life.....🤣🤣😘

That's not "wobble" that's the rotation of the earth around the sun....

True...but nothing to do with the seasons, which was the point I was inexperty trying to make.

It's not "ego and selfishness", it's a complete lack of any info dissemination/consultation/decision making processes being established. It's one person making all the decisions within a very small group and that person deciding a "military command structure" is best. It's interesting to see that an eighteenth century document is still having its negative effect on governance almost 800 years later (if I have the stories correct timeframe!) Fascinating to see how our author deals with this tension! Fun read. Looking forward to more!

Interesting progress... I am confused by the statements that seasons on earth are produced by "wobble".... the earth doesn't "wobble", it rotates around the sun at an angle; a very consistent angle. When the south pole is slanted towards the sun, the northern hemisphere is in winter, as the year progresses, the earths progress around the sun means the seasons change, and spring then summer occurs in the north as the north pole faces the sun. I don't get how this could be called "wobbling"?

Coming to this some two years after originally published, I am enjoying the story. As an observation ( not a criticism) coming from a citizen and some time resident of Australia and Canada, I find the assumptions and "history" very much US centric. Of course this is a story and as such there had to be a reason why the Ark's journey started, but is interesting that in the 200 or 300 years between now and the date the Ark departed, the only path was a world split between haves and have nots, armies defending the haves, the breakdown of civil society etc. Even the threat of climate destruction was not enough for US society to adapt to a more "common good" and less beggar-my-neighbour individualism. Had the author taken us down that route, there would be hardly justification for the story, so in some ways I am glad they didnt! But they way the story is constructed, it's drivers and direction, did pause and make me think...a sign that it's written well! Thanks and I look forward to seeing it all unfold....

I am surprised that Mickey isn't in a hospital or at lest a rehab hospital. I realise for the drama to move on that Drew his "friend" needs to be able to assist, but I'd hope IRL Mickey would be getting more professional care!

True, but isn't that part of the suspense?

We have what must be, in the Arbour world, a unicorn; what looks like a sane, stable, rational, loving and caring relationship between two adults. Will and Travis. Makes me all gooey inside..... 《sigh》 What is the chance it stays this way?