Because if you look at almost every relationship in this book, it boils down to the physical. It promotes a casual, shallow mindset towards relationships. Does it add realism? Maybe, but I don't find it necessary. Matt's girlfriend 'staying over'.quite a bit. Sky and Alice deeply intertwined making out at a party. And this book is littered with comments about these teenage relationships. Having sex is not some casual, 'well, goes with the relationship' deal. Maybe their are parents totally okay with their children sharing their beds so young, I am not naive. I realize that it is never explicitly spelled out that Matt and his girlfriend have sex, but it is insinuated. I understand sometimes it 'adds realism'. Teenage sex thrown in novels is one of my greatest pet peeves. Did you know that one out of every four high school students in England has an STD? If parents act the way they apparently do in City of Secrets, I'm no longer surprised. And this new one, Matt, is the worst of the lot. These characters are starting to become downright bores. I know it is hard to write a sequel, and I'm sure it is equally hard to keep true to the same characters for four books, however, whether it is Nick glancing anxiously at Georgia every time the name Lucien comes up, whether it is Arianna apparently entirely forgetting she was never going to use a double again and putting her maid at risk again, whether it is even Sky's nonchalant attitude about his experience in Talia (I find his not going back ever the strangest of all) I was sick of it. I'm sick of the old characters and old relationships. And how come none of this was happening before Lucien showed up? Or was it? Random plot elements and new characters forced in. What is with the Stravagante from our world being all like 'one great purpose and never return'? Why do the Talian Stravagante keep bringing items to our world? It would be much easier to find a way to have the same people come back and forth instead of having to train a new person each time. I felt it in the book before, but now I'm seriously irritated. I felt again and again as if the author was trying to prove that she could write four books and give each character a distinctive personalty. His issue apparently seems to be petty jealousy and inferiority, he somehow develops this great magical power that is weird, unexplained, and fairly easy to take care of, and his entire 'purpose' apparently amounts to getting beat up. As much as the plot goes out of its way to remind the reader again and again that he's so unlike Luciano, the reminder isn't needed. What's his problem? That he has an inferiority complex? I just don't buy it. His issue apparently seems to be petty jealousy and inferiority, he somehow develops this great magical power that is weird, unexplained, My least favorite of the Stravaganza books so far. My least favorite of the Stravaganza books so far.
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