Yes, Mercury is a memorable novel, hard not to read all the way through immediately to solve the many character and plot mysteries!
Other fine Reviews have covered this, so I will simply add questions:
1. Why no three men on the roof of the cover?
2. Given that Elise makes her early dislike of Marley abundantly clear for 3 reasons =
leaving the park with Baylor knowing nothing of him, exchanging Baylor for Waylon,
then getting pregnant (does anyone remember birth control here?) by Waylon,
why does Marley go on and on and on about wanting Elise to treat her like a daughter?
Marley has her own Mother that she could have relied on a lot more.
3. Marley was reputed to bring Honesty to Mercury, yet she hides information about Elise's mental state which could have put her life in danger. As well, she has facts about money and murder and Shay which she keeps to herself. Why?
4. Why promote Diet Coke? It feels false and, worse yet, can cause illness.
5. Plot really crashes with the needless and unfortunate Shay/Patrick/Baylor
roof tricks.
Other fine Reviews have covered this, so I will simply add questions:
1. Why no three men on the roof of the cover?
2. Given that Elise makes her early dislike of Marley abundantly clear for 3 reasons =
leaving the park with Baylor knowing nothing of him, exchanging Baylor for Waylon,
then getting pregnant (does anyone remember birth control here?) by Waylon,
why does Marley go on and on and on about wanting Elise to treat her like a daughter?
Marley has her own Mother that she could have relied on a lot more.
3. Marley was reputed to bring Honesty to Mercury, yet she hides information about Elise's mental state which could have put her life in danger. As well, she has facts about money and murder and Shay which she keeps to herself. Why?
4. Why promote Diet Coke? It feels false and, worse yet, can cause illness.
5. Plot really crashes with the needless and unfortunate Shay/Patrick/Baylor
roof tricks.