Lucky Girl - Completed

That tendency of mine to slip into Evie's shoes and her head had me going all over the place. It really hit me when they got to the abandoned church. Even though I'm into her character there is that part of my brain as a woman that was still applying the real world to the story. Jude taking her off to an isolated spot that she isn't familiar with had me thinking, 'My god Evie be careful please'. It's scary and sad how automatic that way of thinking is because I know just from the pictures of later chapters alone Evie is fine, or appears so, but I still couldn't stop thinking it and feeling genuinely scared for her safety. I was even thinking she didn't let her friends know she was going to be alone with Jude. She didn't set up any kind of safety net that if she hadn't been heard from by a certain time her friends needed to come looking.

She's beginning to fall in love and deeper so than she's ever been. Her mind is already a swirling mass of conflicting and strange thoughts, emotions, and urges. The wild bike ride to get there had already frightened her a little, and now she's on unfamiliar ground, isolated and alone with a man she doesn't really know. She needed his help to get over the wall and in and would need it again to get out. Now he has total control of the situation and her. That is terrifying. Even though she was moved by the beauty of that stained glass window she was still inwardly frightened and that cruel joke of turning out the lights was the final straw. You could sense there was always a big part of her that wanted out of there, like right now. That she was kicking herself for allowing him to cast a spell on her that let her drop her guard and wind up trapped like that. It wasn't the flapping of bat wings alone that provoked her terror. It didn't help but it was entirely that vulnerability and him taking away the one last defense she had. I'm finding myself not liking Jude very much at the moment. I mean like really not liking him. Maybe in his mind it was all just a joke, but it was very cruel.

That chapter really felt intense and personal. I may have to go back later and reread it to pick up other nuances. Just not right now.