Lexicon, 11/18

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I really do not like how the ending of this book was illustrated. For one, the chapter wasn't really in sequence along with the previous chapters. But, the other chapters never really went along in order either. I also learned that there is an immunity to the bareword. If you get the flu shot, it is supposed to help prevent you from getting the Flu, just as if you were to get any other booster or shot at the doctors. Well, this bareword isn't so muhc like that.

Wil, or Harry was immune to the bareword, or of ever being comroomised. He was used by Eliot against the oragnization of the poets. The group Eliot was involved with when Emily was Woolf and he was interacting with Harry was a group of people who retired of being a poet or who quit their job with the Academy. When Emily speaks to Yeats for one of the very last times, she mentions that love itsef is equivalent to the same powers the bareword can do but like the bareword it will comrpomise anyone or everyone. I realized when she said this, that Harry was immune to Emily compromising him and the bareword because he was deeply inlove with Emily, though he never said it. With that, I don't think Emily was ever fully in love, since she was able to be compromised.

With the ending aswell, I don't think it was fair ("but life isn't fair, right?") Emily did finally kill Yeats like her wish, but Eliot was murdered also. Along with this, when Emily goes to Harry after she kills Yeats she tells him she loves him very much, but to kill him. I think Emily completely was inlove with Harry that final chapter of her llife. When hse rejogged her memory after being compromised twice, she recived some of her memory back, and her ruling wore off more and more. This was a major cliffhanger, considering the book didn't specifically say wether Harry kills Emily or not, what happens afterwords, and if the organization for the Poets continued or not.

Overall, I guess I enjoyed this book. Although I am not too sure if I would have a science fiction book for my first pick. This book was very well written, but also quite intense. There was a lot of "power," mind control and violence.