No, the eye thing came after she noted he only had one eye, which is why I went to double-check in the first place.
Thing is, if this was intentional to show Anita's finally embrace her role as a villain, this is a brilliant move. She's fully transitioned from heroic figure to the very thing her younger self would have killed on principle -- she preys on the weak, enslaves them to her will, and maintains all her actions are just. But it's not, and we're still supposed to back her as the heroine, and I just can't do that in this book.
Ugh, honestly? I would have started the book at the part where she wakes up in the cemetery. I copied the whole thing over into a Word doc, hacked out the first part and other bits that aren't necessary (such as what happend to Nicky, because Anita could still have used Silas' death to raise the zombies), and I wound up taking out about 80% of the book. I maintain that this could have been a 20k word tense, thrilling story, instead of a 50k rambling monstrosity.
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Thing is, if this was intentional to show Anita's finally embrace her role as a villain, this is a brilliant move. She's fully transitioned from heroic figure to the very thing her younger self would have killed on principle -- she preys on the weak, enslaves them to her will, and maintains all her actions are just. But it's not, and we're still supposed to back her as the heroine, and I just can't do that in this book.
Ugh, honestly? I would have started the book at the part where she wakes up in the cemetery. I copied the whole thing over into a Word doc, hacked out the first part and other bits that aren't necessary (such as what happend to Nicky, because Anita could still have used Silas' death to raise the zombies), and I wound up taking out about 80% of the book. I maintain that this could have been a 20k word tense, thrilling story, instead of a 50k rambling monstrosity.