Hyperion prologue and section 1

 Prologue

The bad guys are attacking the main place of the space good guys and we gotta get outa dodge

Section 1

They are out of dodge, specially the hegemony council is out of dodge.  He left on a giant tree space ship. They are going to the distant planet of Hyperion. He's a little surprised when they tell him only 6 people are on the ship.  It usually transports thousands of people.  He has a ship ready for him to leave after he meets with the others.

They have dinner and discuss that the shrike (this cult that appearantly has a god on hyperion that grants wishes.) Wanted these seven random people to come do this thing, I'm guessing in an effort to beat the bad guys.  So they're going to tell their stories.

First up, the priest pg 25

He tells a story that isn't even his story.  It's about some other priest that went to hyperion and found a long lost tribe of people that due to advanced alien technology were immortal.  The punchline is that they found these people and blew them up with a nuke.

The Black Prism ch 1 - 35

 Ch 1 pg 1 kip

Kip is our main character.  He's basically going grave robbing.  It just so happens that this is a HUGE mass grave that was the site of a ginormous battle.  He's worried about wolves, but what he finds is much worse.  At first there's a soldier.  Then that soldier is dead and there's a man with broken green eyes.  Appearantly this is a thing that happens and it is know to Kip that these types have magic powers and they go mad.  This guy promises he's not mad.  He also tells Kip his village is about to be attacked and its basically because Kip is the chosen one.

Ch 2 pg 11 gavin

Loving the chapter length so far.

Gavin is the white prism.  Assuming that means he can do ALL the color magic.  He's apparently Kip's dad, but he doesn't have any children as far as he knows.  Also guessing Kip is the black prism, which make him even more powerful than Gavin.  But that doesn't actually make sense if you know your light combos. 

Gavin seems to be the head of the evil empire that's about to destroy Kip's village. In case the village destroying isn't enough to make you think the evil empire is evil, they make a point to tell you that Gavin's clothes were layed out by a slave.  I think slavery is bad.  In case that needed clarification. 

Ch 3 pg 17 gavin's brother

In case you forgot, Gavin is the head of the evil empire and he's had his brother in a jail cell for 20 years.  What an asshole.  I hope his brother escapes and he and Kip kill Gavin.

Ch 4 pg 19 kip

Kip goes to the town dyer and tells him about the army that's gonna attack the village.  The Dyer tells him that his friends are fishing on the bridge into town.  He's gotta get them and get the he'll out of dodge.

Ch 5 pg 22 Gavin

I guess maybe he's not the worst.  He doesn't seem to be actively evil.  I'm not even sure the governmental body he's part of is evil.  They describe it as preserving balance.  Largely it seems to mostly be focused on stopping people from using red magic as that's the best magic for war and killing so people tend to overuse it.  Also he as an individual appears to have authority over two things, Jack and shit.  He's more of a tool they use for the rebalancing. 

Ch 6 pg 29 kip

Kip gets to the bridge and his "friends" are there.  Ram and the beautiful Isabella and Swanson.  Kip tells them they gotta go, but Ram wants to do sex on Isabella and solders show up and the two of them are spotted and shot to death with arrows.  Kip uses blue magic powers to try to stop some arrows, but it didn't help.  He and Swanson are doing their best to not be seen.  The hbic tells the army men they're here to kill all these people and burn the village to the ground.

Ch 7 pg 35 Gavin 

He's talking to some government chick that read his mail about his son.  Oh yeah, he is a piece of shit cause he's got his own brother imprisoned.  The government chick is an old lady called the white.  I guess she's really the one in charge.  Gavin realizes he had some dalliance in the famed whore houses of Tyrea Sixteen years ago.  That might be where this son of his came into being.  He realizes he was betrothed to a lady named Karris at the time and when she hears of this (Gavin is pretty sure the white is going to tell her) she will be very angry.

Ch 8 pg 38 kip

Kip has green magic powers and he uses them to kill some soldiers and the rest of the soldiers run away cause they don't wanna get killed by a guy with magic powers.  Kip stumbles toward the orange 🍊 Grove hoping to avoid the soldiers.

Ch 9 pg 41 Gavin 

Karris is a member of the black guard that is sworn to obey the white.  She has red and geeen magic powers.  Gavin says they're gonna do a mission in Tyrea and also take care of a blue Wright that's been causing trouble and they're gonna do it fast cause he's gonna use is magical powers to get them there.  Karris is amenable to this because otherwise she gonna have to spend two weeks on a boat getting to Tyrea.

Ch 10 pg 46 kip

Kip wakes up and hears soldiers.  He makes his way across a streM and into a cave to get away from the soldiers and their dogs.

Ch 11 pg 52 kip

Kip gets to a cave where his mom and Sanson.  His mom is dying from a hole in her head.  She makes him promise he'll use his magic to avenge her.  Sanson has an 

Ch 12 pg 57 kip

Kip and sanson keep drifting down the river and they witness a number of horrors but nothing horrible happens to them.

Ch 13 pg  Gavin 

Gavin uses his magic to make a boat fly.  Fun detail in the midst of that is that prisms only get ro live so long.  He mentions that he came up with the idea for the flying boat when he had seven years left.  So he's got less than seven years left.

Ch 14 pg 72 kip

Kip and Swanson are spotted by a bad guy wizard.  When he catches them, he tells them the plan was to take him alive.  But kip killed too many guys for that and now he's gotta die.

Ch 15 pg 79 Gavin 

They fly in their boat and fate takes them ro kip and Sanson.  But it's too late.  They can't save them.

Ch 16 pg 87 kip

Kip tells sanson to run thinking he can save him with magic.  It doesn't work out.  Sanson dies.  But kip causes enough of a distraction that Gavin and Karris kill a ton of bad guys.  Some guy shouts "what's the meaning of this?" All high and mighty and then he recognizes Gavin.  He's gotta be shitting his pants now 

Ch 17 pg 92 gavin

The king is not shitting his pants.  He is very full of himself. He thinks he'll kill Gavin and it'll be all good.  Gavin explains how big of a mistake that would be.  The king is all, ok then, give me the boy and we will go.out separate ways. Gavin tells him the boy is his bastard and will be coming with him.

Ch 18 pg 102

Karris reads the letter from the white and is exactly as angry as expected.  But even that angry, she doesn't murder anyone.  I mean, anyone new beyond the guys she already murdered.

Ch 19 pg 107

Kip comes to and Gavin tells him he's his son and karris is sick of Gavin and leaves.

Ch 20 pg 111

Kip and Gavin are escaping on the boat that they make go fast with their magic.  It goes well for a while, but eventually kip realizes he's super tired and in his exhausted state he flips the boat.  Gavin takes it in stride.

Ch 21 pg 124 Dazen

Who's Dazen you might say.  He's Gavin's brother. You know Gavin,  he's the one that just saved Kip.   So here I am thinking once again maybe Gavin isn't the worst and I'm reminded that he is cause he's got his own brother in a secret prison.

Ch 23 pg 127

Gavin slaps kip around a bit to show him his place.

ch 24 pg 130 Karris

She's walking through the town and seeing the devastation.  She finds she's angry at Gavin, not the king.  Which reminds her of a time she was so angry at Gavin she thought about going over to Dazen's side.  He must have been the fake prism.  So maybe everyone else thinks Dazen is dead and they'd be super pissed if they found out Gavin kept him alive.  She falls through the burnt out floor of a church.

Ch 25 pg 136 gavin/kip

Gavin talks at kip a lot.  But the punchline is that kip can go to magic school 🏫 or he can go with Gavin as he makes war.  Seems like Kip is leaning toward staying with Gavin.

Ch 26 pg 143

Kip and Gavin are on the boat and kip explains a lot of things about color magic.

 CH 27 148

Kip and Gavin make it to the place where all the magic people live. I will be calling this place Hogwarts.  There are magical black men there and kip will be know as gavin's nephew. 

Ch 29 pg 158

Kip and the magical black men do a bit of a play for the other guards and pretend kip floated in on a log and his master drowned.  Th magical black man named irefist broke his best blue specs in the process.

Ch 30 pg 162 liv danavis

Liv is from rekton. I wonder if she knows kip.  Probably not. She was part of the false prisms war and I presume came to hogwarts long before that.  Kip would have been a baby back then I think.

Liv's life sucks cause she and her dad were on the wrong side of the prism war.  She knows Kip's mom.  Oh, she does know kip. Maybe the prism war wasn't that long ago.

Liv serves a lady named Aglaia.  She's part of a group called the Ruskin.  They know about kip and they want Liv to spy on the prism.

Ch 31 pg 173 Gavin 

Gavin kills a blue man.  As part of the killing the blue man calls himself part of the unchained and says the bad king is involved. But then he declares that Gavin's brother is the one truly in charge.  Also there was a thing where they were talking and Gavin was saying there was no God because if there were they wouldn't have allowed there to be two prisms .  People have referred to gavins brother as the false prism cause he was on the losing side.  But it feels like a big reveal here that they were both true prisms. 

Ch 32 pg 181 kip

Kip and iron fist take a boat to the big island.  Kip is all "what now?" And iron fist is all "I'll come get you in the morning " and kip is a little uppity and iron fist is all "trust me, tomorrow you'll be happy you got the rest.

Ch 33 pg 188

Karris is talking to the guy that was gavin's brother General in the prism war.  They talk about her trying to infiltrate the king's army.  He points out that she's super famous.  She's not gonna infiltrate shit.  She comes to the conclusion that the white has betrayed her.

Ch 34 pg 195

Gavin tries to get back into his room at hogwarts in a secret fashion.  This is an exhausting process.  He gets to his room and his slave bathes him.  Her name Is Marissa and she's been his slave for a long time they have a sexual "relationship" and he wants to do her now but he's gotta go see his brother asap.  He goes through tunnels and stuff and the big reveal is that the prison room is constantly moving and he has to wait for it to get to where he is.  Awesome.

Ch 35 pg 204 kip

After spending the night in hogsmead iron fist takes kip to hogwarts.  There are many wonders to behold and kip has a million questions and likes to tell jokes. Iron fist doesn't answer questions and doesnt have a sense of humor. So it's not a very good conversation. 

Recersion book 3 and 4

 Greg says this part sucks.  So we'll see how it goes.

Barry 11/6/18 pg 162

Slade used his dead memories to build the machine without Helena. 

I another timeline Barry went through the proper channels and raided Slade's office.  But someone else got their hands on the machine and started going back in time cause more FMS started happening.

The plan now is for the two of them to take out Slade and destroy the machine thoroughly so nobody else will ever know about it.

Helena 11/7/18 pg 169

Nice

They want to get up to the 24th floor cause that's where Slade is.  They get spooked walking up the stairs and go in on the 8th floor and they a woman and they tie her up in her hotel room.  Helena cuts herself.

Barry 11/7/18 pg 177

She used the memory of cutting herself to jump back from 15 minutes in the future.  Slade was waiting for them on the 24th floor and he killed Barry and Helena barely made it to the machine to come back.  This time they hit the lab first.  It doesn't go much better.

Helena 11/7/18 pg 185

She's got a shotgun on Slade and they're talking about the good Ole days.  Then a lot of philosophy talk about whether the machine is good or bad.  Then Slade says you won't understand until you travel like I've traveled. Then the lights go out.

Barry 11/7/18 pg 188

Slade runs for it and they're all in the dark and it's not great.  Barry runs after and finds slades dead body.  Thers tons of cops.  Gwen (remember her?) Is one of them.  Barry is all, tell your men to stand down Nd she's all, they're not my men.  Then some guy is all step out and talk to us.  Gives me teal Mr Anderson from the matrix vibes.  Barry tells Helena to run and he gets shot to death.

Helena 11/15/18 - 4/16 pg 195

I miss the expanse and its consistent chapter sizes.

The government has the machine.  Well, a very small DARPA group run by a man named Shaw who likes cinnamon altoids amd not respecting other people's personal space.  Helena is a prisoner, but they let her attend meetings. They start doing little things. Max 5 days in the past.  Stop a school shooting here, end a serial killer there.  Then hire ups find out and start giving them military assignments. This all seems pretty well contained until on day Helena gets a call from Shaw saying he's been ordered to send someone back a year to do an assassination.  

Then the tunnel she's in gets exploded.  Then she's fine.  Then a bridge gets blown up, then it's fine.  This happens over and over again.  Turns out someone hacked Slade's computers a year ago.  They sold the schematics to lots of people.   Every major government now has a time machine and a bunch of terrorist groups too.  That's what's causing this disaster loop.  Terrorists are going back in time to do terror and then governments are going back in time to undo the terror.  But wait, it gets worse.  It's on wiki leaks.  Anyone with the resources can create a time machine now.

Helena is sick of this.  She puts herself in the machine and goes back to her 16th birthday when her parents gave her a truck and she drove it to the convenience store. The description of this happening is spectacular.   Its like shes killing her 16 year old self.  So good.

Helena 10/15/1986 pg 237

Helena is happy to be back with the young healthy versions of her parents.  She's worried she might forget why she's here.  She writes herself a note in her journal that she's got 32 years to stop the climate.

Book 5

Barry 4/16/19 Pg 245

Barry and Helena live several lifetimes together and they never really get any better.  Lifetime after lifetime they try to do something different but it always ends the same way.  Nuclear holocaust. 

This changes a little when one lifetime Helena doesn't find him at a bar in Portland Oregon to start their life together.  

They talked about Portland earlier in the book, but i assumed it was Portland Maine because in the next sentence they mentioned his grandparents in New Hampshire.  

Instead he does what he did in his first life,  move to New York and live his whole cop life with a dead daughter and everything.  But when he gets his memories back he calls Jee Woon, who confirms a theory of Barry's that at some point, Slade figured out how to go back without everyone else getting dead memories. But he doesnt know how.

a few lifetimes later helena gets the idea to kidnap Slade.  In that life they're near San Francisco and Slade and Barry watch San Francisco get all blown up.  In that moment Slade tells Barry the secret.  You have to jump back into a dead memory.  Also to stop all this they have to go back to the beginning. Back to when Slade first used the chair.

Barry Antarctica pg 298

Barry is in a research station.  His memories start to come back and he recognizes Helena on a TV screen.  She tells him to wait till AL his memories come back before he watches the next part of the video.  She tells him she's dead.

Barry is planning to commit suicide and gets a good start at it after he sees the news that nuclear Armageddon is happening. 

But then he remembered what Slade said.  Go back to the beginning. He used the chair on November 5th 2018.  Barry has to go back and stop him.

Barry pg 311 November 4th 2018

He's back at the brunch at the beginning of the book with his ex wife as they celebrate his dead daughter. 

Lots of real emotional stuff at that brunch. 

Barry November 5th 2018 pg 322

I guess he flew from New York to San Francisco last night.  He goes to Slades apartment. He tells him the short story of what happened.  Slade tries to shoot him with a gun.  Barry snuck in earlier and replaced the bullets with empty shells.  I guess he kills him.  Hes got plenty of real bullets. That scene just sorta cuts off.

He goes to a bar where Helena is.  He sits next to her.  That scene also cuts off and that's the end of the book.  

Library opens at 1.

Recursion by Blake Crouch schedule. May 3rd Book Two

 Helena pg 101

Holy crap I was right.

Slade is from the future.  There was an accident when someone died in the tank and he figured out it was time travel.  Then he commited suicide in the tank with the chair on and made it back ro when he was in his 20s and did all this.

Barry pg 109

Barry is overwhelmed by all this.  He feels like he should just be overjoyed, but he's super worried that this isn't real.  Or even worse, that it is real but somehow Slade will see what he's doing and disapprove and take it away.

Helena 114

Slade tried to send Reed (the addict they're experimenting on) back to a memory from another timeline and it didn't work.  He just died.  So he sent himself back to stop Reed from doing the experiment.   When it catches up to them, Reed says he remembers dying and it was beautiful. He recalled a childhood memory that was awesome and he could have stayed in it forever.  He says they should have left him dead so he could.

Barry 119

He loves this life sooooo much.  He periodically finds himself overcome with emotion.

Helena pg 120 2009 July 5th

Reed enjoyed the experience of dying so much that he hangs himself. 

Slade says he's gonna time travel back and save him.  Helena says he made the choice to kill himself and he should let it be.  She suddenly realizes that she wants to escape and can't cause even if she did, Slade would go back in time and stop her.

Barry 122

Barry is better at life than last time.  Some because he remembers stuff from his previous life.   But mostly cause he cares a lot more.

Helena 124 2007 October 22nd

She goes back in time to escape Slade.

The memory is when jee-woon comes and offers her all of Slade's money to continue her research. She says yes.  I'm real curious to see where this is going.

Barry 126 2008 January - May

Barry just living his life.

Helena pg 127 2007 Oct- 2010 August

Even though she said yes to Jee-Woon, she didn't mean it.  She cashes out her savings and goes on the run.  The last sad thing she does in this chapter is goes to see her mom.  There's one moment of clarity but then she's back to being fully stricken with altzheimers. 

Barry pg 135 2010 June- 2018 November 

I don't care for the inconsistent chapter lengths. We got 1 page chapters and then this 22 page whopper.  Barry has a good second life.  His daughter graduates from college and he's so proud and he loves her so much.  He and his wife get a divorce. It's amicable and Barry realizes that in his previous life he blamed his divorce on his daughters death.  Now he realizes it wasn't meant to last.  Maybe in his next life they'll get divorced even earlier and be even happier. 

Then they get to the fateful day when he went back.  Everyone remembers his previous life.  His daughter commits suicide cause she can't get over the memory of her death.

Barry should have been prepared for this.  He should have had a plan to tell his daughter and wife.  But now he's divorced with a dead daughter again.  What a piece of shit.

Barry finds his way back to the memory building and he's real tempted to break in and go on a killing spree.  Then he has a better idea, he's gonna call Gwen and have her bring the while NYPD down on these Mother Fulkersons. But then he hears a lady tell him not to make that phone call.  It's Helena. 

Really looking forward to book 3.  I gotta remember to go to the library and pick up guardians of the galaxy.

Recursion by Blake Crouch schedule. April 19: Book One

 Barry pg 1

Barry is a cop and he's trying to stop a building jump suicide attempt.  Ann has FMS (False Memory Syndrome)  she remembers a life with a husband and son in Vermont along with her real life.  This life feels hollow and meaningless by comparison.   Barry tries to talk her down by telling her about how his daughter died and he felt similar but got better.  She ends up jumping. 

Helena pG 8

Helena is a memory scientist and she's applying for more funding.  Her main motivation is her mother's altzheimers.  A mystery man shows up in her lab and offers her unlimited funding for her work if she's OK with complete secrecy.  She accepts .

Barry pg 13

Barry is "celebrating " his dead daughters birthday by having brunch with his ex wife.  It's nice, he gets a text from a female cop that's currently a friend but was previously a drunken hookup asking if he needs company.  He gets disastrously drunk and comes to on her couch at 4 am.

Helena pg 24

Helena is transported via helicopter to meet her new boss Marcus Slade.  Billionaire philanthropy type.  He's psyched about how much money they'll make if they can cure altzheimers. 

Barry pg 28

One of the things the suicide told Barry was that her husband from her other life has a 0revious wife that committed suicide by jumping off the same building.  Barry gets the police report and in this world she didn't jump.  He knows he should let it go.  But he's too curious.  He's gonna get on a train to long Island to harass these people that don't really have any relationship to his suicide.

Helena pg 30

The whole oil rig r and d thing Slade has is awesome.  But shit get real when he brings in a couple quantum processors.  Then they've got all the processing power they need to map the human brain and isolate specific memories.  The memory chair that was just a private idea a year ago is now a reality.  Helena is gonna be the first experiment.

Barry 41

Barry goes out to Lon Giland to harass the guy that was married to his suicide in another life.  He feels firmly harassed.  Barry is sure even though he harassed the guy but good, he was lying to him.  Barry has FMS in a coffee shop.  Maybe he got it from the suicide.

Helena pg 47

They can now do a thing where they stimulate certain parts of your brain and you remember a specific memory super vividly.  Slade says it's not emersive enough.  The next step is to put it in a sensory deprivation chamber and stop your heart for a second so you get that whole life flashing thing.

Helena is now a little worried about her safety.

Barry pg 55

He wakes up on the train.  Old man asks for his ticket.  He has missed calls from Joe the lon Giland harassed. He calls back and Joe tells him all about a building he went to that messed up his brain.  Barry goes there.  There's a bar.  He is drugged. He wakes up strapped into one of Helena's chairs and also tunes are in him.  Crazy bearded guy (I'm assuming this is Slade and the 10 years since Helena invented this thing have not gone as planned ) says tell me about when you last saw your daughter alive 

Helena pg 67

Nobody liked Slade's stop someone's heart idea.  Pretty much everyone has left.  Slade is trying to convince Helena to keep going. 

Barry pg 71

He is telling Slade about the last time he saw his daughter.  

Helena pg 73

Slade has found a heroine addict to do the experiment on.  They do it and the man dies and they're all screaming at Slade to bring him back.  At the current moment he's been dead for 304 seconds.

Barry pg 80

I am never getting into a sensory deprivation chamber.   Barry is killed via chemicals and then he's in the memory of the last time he saw his daughter.  But it's more than that.  He can control his former self.  He goes running down the street after his daughter.

Helena pg 88

This chapter starts like chapter starting 0age 67.  But after a page it's different. Slade isn't telling Helena to come to the experiment.  He's popping champaign  and telling her they're celebrating their success.  He show her a video of the heroine addict telling him his mother is named Susan.  Helena has never seem this man before so she doesn't know what's going on.  But then at 10:15 ish the memory of what happened in the previous chapter floods through her.  Slade tells her that her chair doesn't let people relive their memories,  it actually returns them to the moment of that memory. 

Barry pg 92

It's all real.  Barry saves his daughter.  Vince shows up and verifies that it's all real.  He gives him some ground rules and says goodbye 👋 forever. 

Auberon and the sins of our father

 Auberon

There's an old man with a robot arm and a lady and they're talking about being concured by Laconia.  The old man is like, nbd, new boss same as the old boss.  The lady does not share those feelings.  She feels like being concured by the Laconians really sucks.

Biryar Rinttenaur is the laconian appointed governor of Auberon.   He is trying to memorize the names and positions of government folks. The real reason he was given this position over others of similar abilities is his wife is a brilliant soils scientist. Auberon's claim to fame is they grow food real good.  

Biryar lands in Auberon's capital city and there's soldiers in riot gear lining the streets to keep him safe on his first day.  It smells like shit.  It's great for growing plants, but it smells bad.  The locals say you get used to it.  I can't imagine getting used to the smell of shit.

The old man with the bionic arm is named Erich.  Could this be Timmy's Erich?  He sure talks like Timmy's Erich.  He tries to bribe the new governer and it doesn't go well.  Usually that means he's gonna have the governer killed.  But he decides not to.kill him just yet.

Auberon is very corrupt.  

Biryar's wife, the genius soil scientist finds out that her local atache has her fingers in a lot of pies and largely the patents that have been approved in the past have all bribed her.  Also, her husband is the head of the labor union so likely they're part of a vast criminal organization.  She wants to take immediate action. Biryar says they can't do that.  They don't really have the forces to enforce much on the locals.  They have the vague threat of violence,  but that's from their super advance protomolecule ships that aren't even in this solar system.  So they gotta let these people self govern and try to create the image that Laconia is in charge with the hope that it will eventually become true.

Erich is trying to figure out a way to get the new governer under his thumb.  He's got a spy in the house and they told him that the governor was arguing with his wife.  Erich thinks maybe a honeypot is a good idea.

Mona has decided she's just gonna exert her authority. She goes to IT and says she's having trouble changing things and they give her the permissions she asks for.  First thing she does is give a bunch 9g money to a project she likes that was canned by the previous administration because she wouldn't do all the bribes. 

The governer is being interviewed by a reporter.  She kisses him.  He is not into it.  This has gotta be Erich's doing. 

Erich is now talking to the reporter about her failed seduction.  The criminals decide to dig into Mona to see if anything she does can be used against the governer. 

Governor is doing a talk on the other side of the planet.  Erich surprises him.  He shows him proof that Mona is misappropriating funds.  This is real devastating for him.  Laconian honor demands that he turn her in.  But instead he shoots Erich.  Erich has that robot arm that blocks the bullet.  Erich has successfully broken the governer.  He's gonna kill the head of Laconian security for him so they can sweep his wife's crimes under the rug. Also he screws over that lady that was blocking the science that didn't bribe her and his wife loves him even more.

The sins of our fathers 

FILIP!!!!!!!!!!

He's on some planet.  It has giant monsters that come out at night.  They charge into their walls and break stuff and it's bad.  They don't have guns so their best strategy is to burn it woth torches to encourage it to go around the camp.  It works with one,  but another one comes and charges right through the wall to the center of camp.  A guy named Jandro jumps on the thing and stabs it a bunch.  And I guess they do have a gun in the middle of town and they shoot the monster dead.

In the morning Filip's old broken body hurts real bad.  Mose says to get up, they gotta work.   Mose used to be Filip's boss before the star gate disappeared. They're still pretending he is.  Mose makes a big deal about how they aren't going to the town meeting cause their deal with the union says they don't have to.  Filip isn't as delusional as Mose.  He's going to the town meeting.

At the town meeting they vote to move the settlement cause their camp is right in the middle of the monster path.  The next day they start moving stuff but jandro doesn't do that, he and his group of tough guys start building better defenses. Everyone else sorta follows suit.  I guess democracy is dead.  Filip isn't having it.  Jandro reminds him too much of his dad to let it.go.  so he.kills him with a bomb and gets banished.

Evelyn ch 51 through end

 Ch 51

Michael is the killer.  He killed his dad and maybe his mom but that's unclear.  The plan was to have eve l yn fake her death with one of the black revolvers he took from their mom's room and then really kill her woth the other.  They're twin guns so the bullets will match.

But then there's a twist.  She drinks evelyn's scotch and dies cause it's poisoned.  Evelyn also starts getting affected by the poison but narrator has the antidote that he as Gold told him to get.

Narrator is feeling good until the footman shows up and says he should let him kill him cause he has Anna and it'll be real bad for her if narrator gives him any trouble. 

Ch 52 pg 544

This chapter is a lot.  Narrator is Daniel Davies again.  He's in a carriage with some ladies he doesn't know. They picked him up next to his car and they're heading to blackheath.  He jumps out when they get to the carriage house and he grabs a shotgun and heads to the graveyard to go after the footman.  On the way he runs into Daniel and he tells him the jig is up and he's all set to shoot him but then there's a gun in his back and another plague doctor and it's a lady.  She makes it very clear that it would be disastrous if Anna were to be the one that escaped Blackheath.   Then the real plague doctor shows up and he's all pissed off that this lady plague doctor is interfering.   He says he's got the situation in hand and she's all like hell you do.  If Anna gets out their bosses are gonna be sooooo pissed.  

Then there's other people with guns shooting at Daniel cause narrator told them about his nefarious deeds and daneiel and narrator emd up at the lake and Daniel is drowning narrator and then narrator sees the ghost of Thomas (the boy that was killed 19 years ago in case you forgot.) And somehow ends up back in his body and Anna kills Daniel and then narrator is dead again and I'm very confused.

Ch 53 pg 570

Narrator wakes up as Gold in bed with a maid.  He's usually crazy by now and attacking the butler but because of what he did different last night as Davies he's not crazy.   The maid does the walk of shame and the plague doctor shows up.  Narrator tells him Michael is the murderer and he's all cool, you won, tonight will be your last loop and tomorrow he will wake up as the real Aiden bishop. 

Narrator tries to argue for Anna and plague doctor is like, nah she's the worst.  This whole thing is a prison and she's in it for crimes against humanity. Narrator argues that she's not that person anymore and plague doctor explains that Anna killed his sister and the reason narrator volunteered to come into blackheath was to make her suffer more.  

Narrator says come to the lake at 11 and you'll see the real Anna.  In the meantime he's gonna find out who killed millicent.

Ch 54 pg 594

Narrator is having a hard time being himself, he keeps getting confused as to what he's supposed to do and he has to really focus or Gold takes control.   He has to take some time and focus on trying to save Anna and he makes his way to the gallery in the house cause knows that's where millicent will be heading.

Ch 55 pg 598

I'm a little confused now.  It's only 7:15 and Aiden as Gold goes to the hall and finds Anna and gives her a sketchbook with his events of the day listed out for her so she can take part.  But didn't she have that in previous days?  How did she have it if in those other iterations of the day narrator as Gold was insane and attacked the butler.  Also, I thought it was later in the day than this.  Greg will explain it to me. 

Ch 56 pg 604

This chapter makes more sense now, he's Gold and he still beats the butler but he does it differently than before so the footman doesn't kill the butler like he did in the previous days.  Did I mention that the footman isn't actually part of the whole prison thing?  He's just a thug that Daniel found and paid a bunch of money to to kill people.  No body jumping needed for that guy to do a bunch of murders.

57 pg 608

We're back in the butler and Anna is there tied to the radiator.  The footman shows up  and tells him he left him alive on purpose before but he's gonna kill him now.  If he tells him where and when they can get Davies he will give him a quick easy death.  He tells him Davies will be in the stables at twenty to ten.  The footman had a thug with him and he sends that guy to deal with Davies. Shenhannegans ensue after that and the footman and he as the butler end up dead but Anna is alive and free.

Ch 58 pg 617

We're back in Gold and its late at night Anna  cuts him down from being tied up and they go to the boathouse where they find lady hardcastle's body.  The next thing they reveal is that all of her children aren't Peter hardcastle's.  They're all Charlie carvers,  the Man everyone thinks killed Thomas hardcadtle if, like me, you'd forgotten.  Then Madeline Aubert (Evelyn's maid) shows up and she has a gun.  Turns out she's really evelyn hardcastle and the impression that I get is she killed Thomas hardcastle. 

Ch 59 pg 627

There's a lot of chitchat about the whole plan as evelyn leads them somewhere further away to kill them.  They're I'm a shack and the plague doctor shows up and narrator distracts evelyn by asking why she killed charles.  She's overcome with grief as she hears the news of his death as this wasnt part of the plan.  Charles was supposed to go in with Daniel on taking over Stanton's blackmail business.  This gives Anna an opening and she sacrifices herself to save narrator. At that point the lady they payed to act as Evelyn shows up and shoots the real evelyn super duper dead.

Ch 60 pg 645

Plague doctor declares them both the winners and says tomorrow they'll truly be set free.  He offers them the ability to get their memories back but warns them they might not like what they remember and they decline.  I assume they lived happily ever after.

I still don't know who poisoned the fake evelyn's drink.