![]() ![]() ![]() she is in college she worries about her mom, she has a cool roommate. her meeting with Seth was pretty epic it dealt with stairs and book bags and her getting a faceful of hotness incarnate. She will feel like that there's people watching her or that there's someone there when she can look around and see that no one's really paying attention to her. She has a mom who has schizophrenia and she's having these moments where she's afraid that she might be getting the disease too because she'll have these chills that will over take her. The return is told in dual perspective so we get the first chapter from seth and then we get to meet our other main character Josie. It made me laugh and I just love the way that he thinks. I realized pretty quickly that he still had his sarcastic and jaded view of the world and that JLA writes right to my humor. I wanted to read the return because I'm in bookish love with JLA and I like Seth in the Covenant series so I needed to know what he was up to now. ![]()
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