A Chapter a Day: Day 14 "The Red Deaths" by Casey Eanes and Seth Ervin

                                A Chapter a Day: Day 14

Reviewing "The Red Deaths" Book one in the Keys of Candor Series by Seth Ervin and Casey Eanes.

It is once again a Monday as we celebrate the two week mark of our reading excursion! I am really happy that I met Seth and Casey at Hickory-Con and that I bought this book. I am really enjoying this and find that my mind always wonders back to this book and the story within.  Enough reminiscing, lets read chapter 14!

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~30-ish Minutes Later~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, I was right. He hanged the mirror in his study and is just staring at it. (For you grammar nerds out there, hanged is the proper past tense term for hang for this sentence.)

The mirror lady finally has a name! I was right... about the first letter. Abtren. I bet spell check hated that. I like her, she knows exactly what to say to make Seam mad.
However, Abtren's ability to anger Seam is nothing compared to his mothers.

                                    **!!Spoilers below!!**


                                                                                                                                                                                                            

Aleigha deserves a better son! She has stood by him, supported him, tried to protect him and loved him unconditionally but the moment she tells him that he shouldn't try to take over the world, he gets mad. I have a hard time respecting someone who can back talk their mother like that.

The dreams that she tells him about really intrigue me.  That is a very symbolic way to give hints as to the future of a character. I have no doubts that the dreams will haunt me for the next few days as I try to decipher their meanings, but why should that stop me from taking a guess now?

"Through the door you encounter a stone staircase. Yet each stone is made up of hundreds and thousands of mangled bodies....."

"This staircase is both alive and dead, and each stone screams out to you, blaming you for its fate. Blaming you for this abomination, the staircase descends down into the darkness. The staircase, somehow, though I don't understand it, never leads up... Yet you have no problem walking on these living stones. In fact, you don't even notice them, Seam." "You just keep descending... and where the staircase ends... Your father. Camden is at the end of the staircase. He stands to block your path; he says he has something to tell you but you... you slit his throat."Seam is walking his lonely path, leaving thousands of bodies in his wake. He doesn't fully understand what he is unleashing on the world by involving The Five and that's why he cannot acknowledge the bodies. Camden.. He got in the way. Made things difficult. So Seam got rid of him. No words can console Seam, he is pleased with his choices and has no intentions of changing them.

That is my theory.

His mothers subconscious is trying to warn her and tell her what Seam did/ is doing and I think that will get her killed.
I can see him putting it off like it was an accident or she died of a "broken heart" when a broken neck would probably be closer to the truth.
I am really curious as to what the future holds for Seams mom. I am genuinely concerned for her safety! I hope Bronson sticks to her like glue so that Seam can't pull anything.
I am going to touch base on the interactions between Abtren and Seam then I will wrap things up. 

 

His behavior is contumelious! ((of behavior) scornful and insulting; insolent."))
What a little brat! "Excuse me, thing I have been worshipping this entire book, yeah. I own you now. Behave."(not a direct quote, my train of thought.) Who does that?! He has fought for so long and has done so many awful things  to get to Abtren and once he has her he is just going to treat her like that? If you have ever been in a work environment then you know that people are much happier working for a gracious boss than for some schmuck who reminds you he is in charge. Not to say that Seam is a schmuck (German for brother but we all know what it means in America.) but....

Also, I am super impressed with Abtrens evil form. For those of you who don't know Okami (or Ookami) means Wolf in Japanese so I obviously have a serious addiction to all things fluffy and deadly. Specifically wolves.  This reveal of her true form has just left me with a happy, almost giddy joy. I love her and want her to do something awful to Seam, not Candor just Seam.

This was a short chapter so that means a short review. I end things here. Sorry about the late post! Join me tomorrow for Willyns chapter!



~Aki Ame Okami