Cordovin didn't know Weiss had run away; she was only referring to choosing Beacon over continuing her education in Atlas. After everything that happened, why would she believe Weiss had still been in Vale up to this point? She wouldn't have known Jacques flew her back immediately after the fall of Beacon? No questions have been raised about the plane that Weiss had sneaked onto and was taken down? Argus must really be the boonies of Atlas if she's informed about some things but not others. Then when Team RWBY and company launch their very risky plan to get past her (thanks, Adam), she accuses Maria over the radio of getting children to help her cross illegally into Atlas. Again, Maria is the one with the medical need to get to Atlas. Cashews or not, she is in need of treatment. If Weiss had to make the sacrifice to go to Atlas alone and stowed Maria in her suitcase for that reason, that would've been sweet. Instead, we get two or more episodes of two old ladies yelling and firing missiles at each other because Adam won't let go of his obsession with Blake. He was probably the one causing problems at the comm tower in the first place, which would've been a neat side quest after they were initially turned away. But no, instead we get this. Little Miss Malachite was an interesting character, but she's neutral at best. Cordovin is the real antagonist at the current moment despite technically doing her job. She just went batshit insane while doing it because of her beef with Maria. I felt bad for Weiss when Maria she insisted she knew what she was doing despite clear evidence to the contrary; she could still fly and use jargon, but she couldn't disguise the age in her voice, leading her to ask why they'd trusted her with the task in the first place. Crunching the cashews and saying "that's the sound of me not caring" was funny but equally insane.
I've now read both Mike Jeavons' novels, but I don't think I'm the target audience for them. They had a good joke here and there, but I found the narrative to be too repetitive with nothing much changing until it was time to cut to the chase. The characters weren't that developed, particularly Rachel and Amie as they are sister characters and not as important as the main few boys. I imagine Mike as the protagonist Simon. The school scenes were painful to get through as the teacher and headmaster seemed to have hate boners for the main characters (with the two female characters being unaffected due to age and possibly gender). They were probably meant to be unreasonable as most adults and educational figures are, but it was too heavy-handed even with the later [weak] explanation. I've never attended a British school, but still. The first one felt like a school writing project, but the second one was better in that regard as well as some character development. However, Rachel ended up getting fridged, so that's no good. I also don't understand why Simon's parents got a puppy instead of a more mature dog that could've fought back against the creatures rather than bark to no avail, as the adults still don't believe the pup or the boys and make the latter out to be criminals. As it was unclear how many of the named creatures died in the first novel, I had no idea whom to expect to return since there was an unnamed survivor. The creatures' plan was stupid too, or at least not very well thought out. Their leader reminded me of Tim Curry's Pennywise if he was an alien instead of a clown. Not bad, but not good enough for me, I'm afraid. Sorry.
I realize I misspelled Pyrrha and Heyner's names. It's hard to remember where the h goes in the former and which word begins the latter. Again, sorry.
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