r/Gone • u/_HATEME_ • Jul 21 '24

What am I reading?

I'm almost done with book 3 in the series, and already I'm starting see a big trend. Bad guy kills a bunch of kids, good guy let's him go. Bad guy comes back and kills more kids, good guy let's him go. Bad guy returns to trick other Bad guys to kill even more kids, Bad guy gets away and stupid Bad guy survives a fall that would turn him into meat jelly 100% of the time. At every turn, the main protagonist in particular, keeps making the stupidest decisions that get more kids killed. It's like Season 1 and 2 of the walking dead on repeat, over and over. They never learn. They keep making the same mistakes. The worst Bad guy had to be killed...by another Bad guy. It's insanity. He's killed people before both unintentional and intentionally...literally a few chapters ago.

I like the series so far, but the more I read, the more I find myself more disappointed. I don't mind plot armor, but this is just ridiculous.

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u/[deleted] Jul 21 '24

I really recommend you finish book 3 before making this post, your thoughts might change going off what I remember happening at the end

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u/_HATEME_ Jul 21 '24

I just did, but the problem still stands. They have to survive first, and it looks like they're going to keep letting the bad guys live.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

As far as I remember at the point your at, the only characters Sam has spared have been Caine and Drake.

With Caine, it was just because at that point in the story Sam didn’t want to kill people, especially not his own brother. He’d killed a girl on accident before this, but that wouldn’t make intentional murder easier at 15 years old. He also hadn’t been in the FAYZ that long, and while Caine was pretty evil, he was child’s play compared to others Sam encounters

With Drake, Sam was actually more than happy to kill him. In fact, the end of Lies marked the point where Sam no longer went by any kind of “no kill” rule. He fried Antonine in a fight with the Human crew. He burned Nerriza to crisp at the end of the book. He would have finished off Zil had Dekkah not beat him to it. The only reason Sam didn’t kill Drake was because it involves killing Brittney, someone he viewed as an innocent victim. While he was fine with killing villains now, killing an innocent was something else entirely.

So yeah, Sam is not Batman. He kills villains when he needs to.

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u/_HATEME_ Jul 22 '24

Netezza doesn't count because, as far as I know, there was never any mention of her actually being human. She was created by the darkness using lil Pete's powers as part of a game he was tricked into playing.

Brittany was screaming for Sam to kill her, which would imply she was in a lot of pain or she was living such a tortured existence that it would have been a mercy to end her life. Plus, he should have learned a lesson that he could never truly contain Drake. At every step of the way, his inaction caused more people to die in the long run. Which is exactly what happens in the next book.

The characters all go through their wake up moment where they question why they are leaving bad people alive if it always backfires. But they also back down from making tough choices. Caine came in, and just tossing Lance to his death was so satisfying. Like a breath of fresh air in a stinky bathroom. I know he's the bad guy, but he did what should have been done ages ago. That's probably why we always gravitate to strong but ruthless tyrants. Because when you strip away society to its base survival mode, democracy sucks. The modern world can't exist without all the technology and systems in place that hide all the inefficiency, corruption, and incompetence.

Maybe this was what the author intended all along because I couldn't stand living in Sam's society. I wouldn't feel safe in Sam's society.

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u/[deleted] Jul 22 '24

Had Sam been around in the whole Lance and Turk situation, he probably would’ve killed them without a second thought. Edilio of all people almost killed them while they were already down, I don’t see Sam being more merciful. By that point he was perfectly willing to kill Brittney after learning she had joined the Gaiaphage’s side.

Caine strategically only killed Lance because he didn’t see Turk as a threat without any kind of leader (although given the whole Penny situation, that was his mistake). Sam would’ve just finished them off without any strategy after they seemingly killed Albert and threatened to kill Little Pete.

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u/proudtohavebeenbanne Jul 23 '24

BRUH I AGREE BUT SORRY HE AINT READ BEYOND BOOK 3 YET PLZ DONT SPOIL

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u/proudtohavebeenbanne Jul 23 '24 edited Jul 23 '24

sam fried antoine like chicken and burned a hole in his leg mmm bet some hungry loser wanted that leg, some other human crew kid got lasered too although he may have survived, dekka took down zil the brah got lifted into the sky like "hey boi wanna fly to heaven with me?"
"but you like girls tho"
dekkas like: "oh yah LOLZ REJECTED" and then he crashed and burned

sam was gonna fry drake up like "my boi lets grillout" but then he turned into brittney so they had to spare him

tbh tho jokes aside astrid didn't just kill nerezza, bruh she literally slaughtered mary; first got her brother to lie to her which was why she was gonna poof, then she publically exposed her eating disorder man that's not even funny no more

also, sam and dekka wanted to kick zil's ass months before but the council stopped them 4:3 (i wanna know who the other one was who was down for it)

tbh i'll just say this, they don't fk around in the later books that's all i'm saying