Matt Gifford's thoughts

Matt Gifford says:
The book so far, in my opinion, has been completely weird. The book itself starts off as an interesting novel, but then throughout the book you are told these short weird stories instead of directly furthering the topic. It went from a Virginian boy who clearly has no emotions about his parents death, to finding this girl, who we find out later is like Jimmy and hides her emotions. The book itself barley gives the time frame of the characters and randomly kills of people without going into inner emotions and direct causes. It seems that all the emotions and events are taking place off of the books topic while the author is just focusing in on taking those emotions and events and smashing them all together. The book itself, in certain parts, seems to be just the aftermath of events. The way I see it, the author gives us a general beginning to the events, example like meeting the Russians. Gives us a brief bio about them, how they fit into the story and what importance they are. Then maybe the author will give us maybe one or two ideas of foreshadowing, and then poof a couple days later one gets killed off. I think the author here is trying to either let us come up with our own interpretations and thoughts on why this happened, or wants us to keep re-reading the book to see if we missed something. This sort of thing also happened in the beginning of the book. The author opens us up to this boy whose being shipped off to the middle of no where on a train, oh and his parents just died! I mean you can’t just say that and then not go into it deeper. Sure the author says that the kids lonely and he feels cut off, but come on the kids a kid he has to show those emotions just not think them. It’s a traumatic event that happens in his life and yet we don’t see it being continued, the author just sets us up for the next big event and continues the pattern.